Mobile applications for smartphones, tablets and other gadgets can turn just about anyone into a citizen scientist. App-equipped wireless devices give users worldwide the ability to act as remote ...
Identifying weeds, checking out the pollen map, or discovering new plant life-forms are among the promising wealth of data available to users of PlantNet—a "Shazam!" for plants. Pierre Bonnet and ...
Citizen scientists are invited to use a specialized app to sift through photos captured by powerful telescopes, searching for signs of neutron stars merging. Reading time 2 minutes Thanks to a newly ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Have you ever wanted to be a scientist? You still can be – and you can do it today with just your phone or a notepad. Citizen ...
CHARLESTON COUNTY, S.C. (WCIV) — Flooding, erosion, and sea level rise are all issues in the Lowcountry. But the SeaRise Project, a one-stop shop on the South Carolina Aquarium Citizen Science app, ...
New research examines the accuracy of information produced by citizen science apps for monitoring bird populations and found that it could actually offer a lot of utility for researchers, with some ...
The BirdNET app, a free machine-learning powered tool that can identify over 3,000 birds by sound alone, generates reliable scientific data and makes it easier for people to contribute citizen-science ...
The world has been gripped by the case of Australian woman Erin Patterson, who was charged with the murder of three people after allegedly serving them a lunch of beef wellington containing poisonous ...
Scientists combined 44,000 citizen science photos, experiments, and genetic data to understand how prairie grasses adapt to ...