When I, Erik Meijaard, worked as a wildlife consultant for a timber concession in Borneo, I often chatted with the logging ...

Citizen scientists have helped to identify an incredibly fast-moving object in space, which is traveling at such a speed that it will shoot out of the Milky Way and head out into intergalactic space.

SAN MATEO, Calif. — A NASA-inspired competition is challenging citizen scientists to build hardware for collecting microorganisms at the edge of space. Citizen scientists can win cash prizes up to $10 ...

Citizen scientists have made a rare and exciting discovery in Renishaw Hills, South Africa, according to the South Coast Herald. The group of locals identified a rare sable cruiser dragonfly. The ...

The business environment today is competitive. Whether your business is global or local, you are challenged to do more with ...

California, the epicenter of the tech boom, might seem worlds away from the lush rainforests and diverse ecosystems we often associate with biodiversity. Yet, Silicon Valley has become an unlikely ...

Citizen scientists have successfully located thousands of previously unknown pairs of “eclipsing binary” stars, NASA announced in June. The ongoing initiative helps space researchers hunt for ...

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.

Space weather scientist Liz MacDonald has seen auroras more than five times in her life, but it was the aurora she didn’t see that affected her the most. On the evening of Oct. 24, 2011, MacDonald was ...

Colorado Mesa University’s resident pika expert, also recently part of a CMU-led rainforest science project that won an ...

As small aquatic habitats disappear at an alarming rate, private garden ponds may help compensate for the loss of natural ...

British conchologists and citizen scientists have teamed up to survey the German hairy snail living in the Thames.