In a remarkable turn of events, a citizen science app has played a crucial role in the rediscovery of a plant species that had been presumed extinct for nearly six decades. This intriguing case ...

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 ...

A citizen science app has helped rediscover a plant species not known to have been sighted in more than half a century.

Plants reflect urban climate and soil conditions with remarkable precision. Using more than 80 million observations from plant identification apps, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for ...

Critically, the study shows that smartphone photos collected by citizens can serve as powerful early-warning data to help fight this rising threat. While mosquitoes can be thought of as tiny flying ...

Melissa Humphries receives funding from the MRFF, NIH, USDoD and DSTG. Caitlyn Forster does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit ...

Threatened frogs aren’t just found in national parks – citizen scientists are finding them throughout private land too.