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Zooniverse is home to the internet's largest, most popular and most successful citizen science projects.Their heart loves and committed to produce real research - so that you know that...
The launch of SETI Live opens the door for anyone to help search for intelligent life on other planets. For the first time ever, data being received by the Allen Telescope Array in Hat Creek, CA...
In order to keep raising awareness of its work, Zooniverse declared this month Citizen Science September. As part of the initiative, the organization is launching new projects and improving existing ones. So far, Zooniverse has revamped its original Galaxy Zoo project and introduced Seafloor Explorer, which asks users locate underwater creatures. The organization declares “even more areas of research [will be] brought into the Zooniverse fold" in its soon-to-be-released projects.
Of all the nature-oriented Zooniverse projects, Snapshot Serengeti takes you on a virtual trip to the plains of the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania. There are hundreds of camera traps laid all...
The NASA OpenGov team has enlisted the help of established NASA partners Zooniverse and Vizzuality, who have pioneered the analysis of large datasets through crowdsourcing, using the power of...
Whether this army of letter-spotters can sort out the stories of Oxyrhynchus remains to be seen. But the Ancient Lives project already underlines the curious, cosmic relatedness of human lives...
NASA announced the release of a new game on Zooniverse, this time to identify space clouds and black holes. With enough participation, the space agency hopes, scientists will have a better understanding of our galaxy and how it's constructed.
The Icehunters website offers up deep, wide-field sky images. The images are shown as subtracted double exposures, a process developed specially for this project, from images taken in 2004 and...
The ultimate goal of IceHunters is to discover Kuiper Belt Objects with just the right orbit and just the right characteristics to make them eligible for a visit from the New Horizons mission. At...
NEEMO-15 will leverage the field of marine science to test out new operational methods with future applicability to space exploration. Marine biology science data will be collected from the...
Experts in the UK and north America are asking "citizen scientists" to study and sift through about 15,000 recordings of calls by pilot whales and killer whales around the planet, to...
Robert Simpson of Zooniverse put it in a note, “We’ve compared their call categories to the (very!) preliminary results from Whale FM and it seems that the users are picking out good matches that...
Crowdsourcing methods are clearly not appropriate to all specialised fields,the advance of citizen science across the globe will no doubt accelerate this revolution.Government funding for...
In the Crowded Room, episode 4, we stare in the face of crowdfunding evil! All the warnings about scams and fraud were true - sort of... Also, it’s Citizen Science Month and the crowd is invited to participate, but if that’s not your thing we’ve also got a crowdfunding project for the more anti-social set -- and it’s also the most awesome pillow I’ve seen since a six-foot stuffed salmon.
Crowdsourced science website Planet Hunters, which enlists citizen scientists to comb through public astronomical data, recently uncovered a four-star planet lurking in NASA’s Kepler data.
Like Zooniverse, Click to Cure breaks down a specific area of research into small, easily accessible parts -- in this case, it's focusing on finding out how different cancerous cells respond...
One of the latest successes from crowdsourcing in science is the discovery of a new planet, PH1.The PH stands for Planet Hunters, a website collaboration between Adler Planetarium, Yale University...
Scientists have used crowd-sourcing to solve research riddles in the past. Gamers helped unlock the mystery of an HIV enzyme in three weeks—after scientists had struggled with the problem for more...
What sets citizen science projects apart from "traditional" science projects? What sets them apart from each other? New research aims to find out.
NASA scientists have confirmed 42 alien planets found by amateur astronomers. These 42 alien planets were found via a crowdsourcing project called Planet Hunters overseen by Zooniverse, where...
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