A citizen science study has found participants’ mental wellbeing is positively affected, in a variety of ways.

Anyone who keeps a bird feeder has likely had the same uneasy thought after seeing a sudden blur of wings in the yard: What ...

Ever wondered what it might feel like to spot giant spider crabs while you're snorkeling? Or check plants for the circular ...

This year’s celebration highlights how Americans can support federal missions not only through NASA research, but also by ...

Yongyi Min and her colleagues highlight how citizen input can help fill data gaps that are hindering the achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, or SDGs (Y. Min et al. Nature ...

Roadmap for scaling citizen science in wetland restoration. The figure illustrates the progression from current approaches, where citizen science remains fragmented and marginal, to emerging ...

Defining Citizen Science in Context | Panelists opened by offering working definitions of citizen science—not just as data collection by non-scientists, but as a broader model for collaboration, where ...

Colombian biologists have leveraged hundreds of observations made by non-scientists to build up a picture of hummingbirds' range in time and space. Colombia is a global hot-spot of deforestation, with ...

More than 100,000 Australian citizen scientists are contributing crucial biodiversity data about species at risk, helping improve conservation efforts in ways that can enhance IUCN Red List decisions.

Citizen science, in which researchers work alongside members of the public to collect or analyze data, brings multiple benefits, extending the capabilities of research teams and aiding public ...

Scientists can’t be everywhere all at once, as much as they’d like to. Many of the problems citizen science helps solve are ...