Innovations in technology and social media have now made it possible for citizen scientists (volunteer enthusiasts) to participate in expanding the scope and reach of modern research through crowdsourcing endeavors. Leave your mark on the advancement of science by participating in any one of these emerging projects.
New smartphone game lets you solve real-world ecological puzzles
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EcoBuilder, which is downloadable now on smartphones and tablets, teaches players how ecosystems work and aims to crowdsource solutions to unsolved ecological puzzles.2 months ago ·
Citizen scientists and astronomers find two strange, ancient brown dwarfs
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The citizen scientists were part of the Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 project.2 months ago ·
NASA's Offering Online Astronaut Training While You're Stuck in Lockdown
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Who hasn't dreamt of escaping to the stars? Especially now, with most of us confined to limited spaces and steeped in tragic news.6 months ago ·
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Would a Longitude Prize speed production of a Covid-19 vaccine?
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To stop economic destruction, we need to refocus vast resources from other productive activity – a truly grand prize might do the trick, says Chris Callaghan6 months ago ·
Scientists are testing for coronavirus with genetic "fishing hooks"
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Molecular "baits" also make testing for the virus safer for lab personnel6 months ago ·
Coronavirus pushes Folding@Home’s crowdsourced molecular science to exaflop levels – TechCrunch
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The long-running Folding@Home program to crowdsource the enormously complex task of solving molecular interactions has hit a major milestone as thousands of new users sign up to put their computers to...6 months ago ·
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Crowdsourced coronavirus tracking apps are great, but we need a more coordinated approach
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At least two crowdsourced coronavirus tracking apps have launched this week, raising questions over whether a more coordinated approach is needed.6 months ago ·
Grainy flip phone pictures have been replaced by sharp, high-resolution images providing irrefutable proof of events and turning random observers into participants in a new generation of citizen science. ... See MoreSee Less
We’re all shark researchers now - The Boston Globe
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Our fascination with shark sightings — and the accompanying photos and tweets — has been a boon to shark researchers and public safety officials on Cape Cod who have partnered with the public to b...10 months ago ·
Snorkeling grandmothers find "astonishing" number of venomous sea snakes
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The specific sea snake in question is a greater sea snake called Hydrophis major—a sea-faring reptile that can reach lengths of 1.5 meters (or longer) and is venomous to humans.11 months ago ·
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Donate your time and typing skills to transcribe documents featuring Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and more.1 years ago ·
Free “Shazam for Nature” App Identifies Plants and Animals in Your Photos
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It’s like Shazam meets Pokémon Go meets nature.1 years ago ·
Not a scientist? You can still help collect valuable data
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The Cumming Nature Center is a little oasis about an hour south of Rochester. With miles of quiet trails through swamplands and towering pine trees, it’s a1 years ago ·
Alzheimer's research furthered with citizen science games - GotScience.org
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The Stall Catchers Megathon used citizen science to accelerate the artificial intelligence and data science furthering Alzheimer’s research.1 years ago ·
How bighorn sheep use crowdsourcing to find food on the hoof
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New study suggests migration routes are passed down from generation to generation1 years ago ·
Clinical gene discovery program solves 30 medical mysteries
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In a recent paper published in Genomic Medicine, the Brigham Genomic Medicine team describes its program, one the team hopes will serve as a model for other academic medical centers or institutions th...1 years ago ·
Clinical gene discovery program solves 30 medical mysteries
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In a recent paper published in Genomic Medicine, the Brigham Genomic Medicine team describes its program, one the team hopes will serve as a model for other academic medical centers or institutions th...1 years ago ·
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Western burrowing owls are found in grasslands and prairies throughout North America, but local populations in San Diego are at risk of going extinct.1 years ago ·
Could the National Institutes of Health (NIH) fund your next game?
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The NIH sees the potential of games for biomedical research and understands the importance of collaboration with the games industry. In this interview we explore their vision, their program and the fi...1 years ago ·
Young adults distressed by labels of narcissism, entitlement
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Young adults both believe and react negatively to messages that members of their age group are more entitled and narcissistic than other living generations, suggests new research presented by Joshua G...1 years ago ·
Editorial: Another chance to Catch the King
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IN NOVEMBER, hundreds of Hampton Roads residents fanned out along local waterways, with smartphones in hand, to document the most substantial tidal flooding of the year.1 years ago ·
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An open-science crowdsourcing approach for producing community noise maps using smartphones
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An alternative method is proposed for the assessment of the noise environment, on the basis of a crowdsourcing approach. For this purpose, a smartphon...1 years ago ·
Crowdsourcing triggers rapid, reliable earthquake locations
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In many cases, it takes several minutes after an earthquake to publish online a seismic location with confidence. Via monitoring for specific types of increased website, app, or Twitter usage, crowdso...1 years ago ·
One of the Biggest Locomotives of All Time Rides Again
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After five years of restoration, 1.2 million pound Big Boy 4014 is visiting Utah to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Golden Spike1 years ago ·
Alarmed by fake news? Fake science is just as serious of a problem
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From Flat Earth theory to UFOs, science is in a serious battle against pseudoscience1 years ago ·
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A new study published in JAMA Oncology shows that artificial intelligence systems crowdsourced from data scientists can segment lung tumors as accurately as human experts can, and at much higher speed...1 years ago ·
Rebecca Simmons: Using citizen science to boost healthcare improvement research - The BMJ
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No one understands the NHS better than those who use it and those who work in it. So research on how to improve healthcare must be informed by the expertise [...]More...1 years ago ·
Researchers find crowdsourcing, AI go together in battle vs. lung cancer | ZDNet
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Crowd innovation can be used for algorithms and artificial intelligence to offset a shortage of radiation oncologists for lung cancer, say researchers.1 years ago ·
Benjamin Franklin Was the First to Chart the Gulf Stream
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Franklin's cousin, Timothy Folger, knew how the then-unnamed current worked from his days as a whaler1 years ago ·
Crowdsourcing Snow Depth Data with Citizen Scientists - Eos
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A new project harnesses the power of the winter backcountry recreation community to gather data that are vital to understanding snow, from winter hazards to water resources.1 years ago ·
The credibility of research needs you!
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A University of Melbourne crowd sourcing project is part of a US effort to solve the science replication crisis and they need thousands of expert volunteers.1 years ago ·
Crowdsourcing knowledge: Indian farmers become citizen scientists to adapt to climate change
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The involvement of farmers in scientific studies can improve crop variety recommendations, researchers say.1 years ago ·
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Archeology professor Sarah Parcak, Ph.D, has used satellite imagery to map ancient archeological sites for nearly 20 years. In her work, she always tries to involve and engage local communities, like ...1 years ago ·
Citizen science: crowdsourcing data to support disaster response
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You’ve probably never heard of ‘groundtruthing’ - the term isn’t widely known outside of scientific circles - but the concept it describes is quietly transforming how communities respond to di...1 years ago ·
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HealthcareAlzheimer’s disease research is going to evolve at an amazing rate on this 13th of April By Carmen Wells - April 9, 2019 0 74 Facebook Twitter Google+ Pinterest WhatsApp On the 13th of Apr...1 years ago ·
Crowdfunding research flips science’s traditional reward model
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Students and junior investigators are more likely than senior scientists to secure crowdfunding for their research.1 years ago ·
Largest Unnamed Object in the Solar System Needs You … To Choose Its Moniker
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Beyond Neptune, there's a minor red planet that rotates around the sun — and it is in need of a name.1 years ago ·
Crowdsourced Technology: What Our Sudden Reliance Upon it Says About Us
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Crowdsourced data and citizen science are both having a major positive impact everywhere you look, from making our day-to-day lives easier to improving our personal healthcare.1 years ago ·
ISU crowdsourcing effort aims to unearth new discoveries
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(Ames)-- Calling all citizen scientists.1 years ago ·
Crowdsourcing vs. Citizen Science: A matter of terminology?
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If you would like to read this item, please apply for an inter-library loan from the University of Otago via your local library.2 years ago ·
Spare 10 minutes to make science leap forward
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Today sees the launch of an innovative Citizen Science Project by Diamond Light Source, the UK's national synchrotron science facility.The project uses a crowdsourcing model to call on people of all a...2 years ago ·
Crowd-sourced computer network delves into protein structure, seeks new disease therapies
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When Greg Bowman presents a slideshow about the proteins he studies, their 3-D shapes and folding patterns play out as animations on a big screen. As he describes these molecules, it might be easy to ...2 years ago ·
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On Wednesday, 27th February, Dr. Kelly Ramirez visited Imperial College London to give a talk on “Transforming scientific institutions through ...2 years ago ·
How crowdsourcing seeds can help farmers adapt to climate change
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In Ethiopia and other developing nations, scientists are working with small-scale farmers on trials to see which seed varieties perform best in changing conditions. These initiatives are enabling farm...2 years ago ·
Manila Baywatch launched | Philstar.com
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Around 200 leaders and members of fisherfolk, urban poor, women and environmental groups yesterday launched Manila Baywatch, a watchdog alliance that aims to monitor developments in the government’s...2 years ago ·
NASA Will Need Your Help Mapping Asteroid Bennu
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NASA needs a precise map of where boulders lie on the surface of asteroid Bennu so that the OSIRIS-REx mission can successfully gather a sample.2 years ago ·
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BLACKSBURG — Kurt Luther is linking today’s computer science to the technology of the 1860s.2 years ago ·
Is expert crowdsourcing the solution to health misinformation?
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Visit the post for more.2 years ago ·
Flooding Creates a 10-Mile-Long Lake in Death Valley
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The rare ephemeral lake was caused when the compacted, dry desert soil wasn't able to absorb the .87 inches of rain that recently fell on the national park2 years ago ·
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A volunteer of the Citizen Science project Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 has discovered the oldest and coldest known white dwarf surrounded by dust. The dust i2 years ago ·
Rome's Mayor Says Coins Tossed into Rome’s Trevi Fountain Will Still Go to Poor
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Controversy erupted earlier this week about who was getting the funds from the 18th-century masterpiece2 years ago ·
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You're at home, making your dinner and suddenly you see an eight legged intruder waltzing around your kitchen.2 years ago ·
Reclaiming a fragmented history | Penn Today
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Digital humanities scholars are orchestrating an epic crowdsourcing effort to sort and transcribe handwriting on thousands of documents discarded hundreds of years ago, known as the Cairo Geniza.2 years ago ·
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Can Crowdsourcing and Collaboration Improve the Future of Human Health?
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A new program will use the wisdom of the crowd to try improving on the 80-year-old "Baby Box," a Finnish institution2 years ago ·
Crowdsourcing Data As Science Comes Under Attack
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Anaiah Brooks is a sixth grader at John P. Parker school in Madisonville. She wants to be a baker when she grows up. She already knows chemistry is a big2 years ago ·
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KHQ provides local news, breaking news, weather, sports and information for the Inland Northwest including Spokane, Coeur d'Alene, Post Falls, Deer Park, Moscow, Pullman and surrounding areas.2 years ago ·
US scientists try crowdsourcing to stop invasive mussels
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BOISE, Idaho (AP) -- Federal officials are offering a $100,000 prize to find a way to kill invasive quagga and zebra mussels. The U.S. Bureau of Reclamatio2 years ago ·
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What This Unprecedented 13-Million-Person Family Tree Reveals
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For starters, the new tree calls into question a prevailing theory for why people stopped marrying close relatives.3 years ago ·
Crowdsourcing goes academic with platforms for reviewing advisers
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Founders aim to help students and postdocs find the right mentor for them3 years ago ·
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U of M crowdsourcing project transcribes Supreme Court justices’ handwritten notes
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Transcriptions provide unprecedented access to the justices' conversations.3 years ago ·
Citizen scientists join in search for exoplanets
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MAR 6, 2018 - Crowdsourcing comes to the scientific community with Zooniverse, an online platform for scientific and historical research where researchers enlist the help of citizen scientists to look...3 years ago ·
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Five-Exoplanet System Discovered Thanks to Citizen Scientists
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Five sibling planets in a very unique orbit around their parent star were discovered with the help of citizen scientists.3 years ago ·
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It’s late October and that means Halloween candy, changing leaves, and wool sweaters to many. It’s also time to get out to fly drones with the launch of the Fly4Fall campaign, a worldwide initiati...3 years ago ·
Crowdsourcing big-data analysis
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Web-based system automatically evaluates proposals from far-flung data scientists.3 years ago ·
Bummer, this also means the death of a great tool that enable crowdsourcing the transcription of countless old texts. ... See MoreSee Less
Captcha is dying. This is how it's being reinvented for the AI age
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The goal of the Turing test is for a human to work out whether they're communicating with another person or a machine. Computers have gotten better at imitating people but they've also improved at ...3 years ago ·
Crowdsourced research gives experience to global participants | Stanford News
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A global, crowd-based research platform gives participants experience and mentoring to help them pursue academic careers or land better jobs. One even ended up at Stanford.3 years ago ·
AI Plant and Animal Identification Helps Us All Be Citizen Scientists
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Apps that use artificial intelligence to allow users to ID unknown specimens are making science more accessible to everyone.3 years ago ·
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Crowdsourcing may have just helped close the "analogy gap" for computers | ZDNet
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It's vexed computer scientists for decades, but a huge roadblock for true AI is falling3 years ago ·
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What's really the point of wasps? - BBC News
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A new citizen science survey aims to shed light on that fixture of summertime in the outdoors: the wasp.3 years ago ·
What happens when you combine crowdsourcing and biodiversity?
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Citizen Science is the way forward. Here are some initiatives that will help you become a part of this growing trend.3 years ago ·
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Google to create 'megamovie' on solar eclipse from crowd-sourced images
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The solar eclipse will begin at Oregon coast (at 9.36 pm IST on Sunday) and end at the South Carolina coast (at 1.36 am IST on Tuesday).3 years ago ·
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New efforts to combine artificial intelligence with crowdsourced annotators and information encoded in domain-specific resources have now been revealed by researchers. The work has the potential to im...3 years ago ·
3 Hard-Science Experiments Happening During the 2017 Solar Eclipse
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While everyone's looking at their phones, scientists will be racing the sun.3 years ago ·
Big Pharma Buys Into Crowdsourcing for Drug Discovery
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The Structural Genomics Consortium encourages pharma companies and academics to put all their cards on the table in the interest of speeding up drug research.3 years ago ·
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In a world overrun by machine intelligence, it is encouraging to see the public playing crucial roles.3 years ago ·
The Human Army Using Phones to Teach AI to Drive
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If you can't wait for driverless cars to hit the roads, you can help train them how to drive now.3 years ago ·
How neurons use crowdsourcing to make decisions
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When many individual neurons collect data, how do they reach a unanimous decision? New research from a collective computation group suggests a two-phase process.3 years ago ·
Crowdsourcing meets science with new animal tracking technology
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Researchers have developed a way to track endangered species using smartphones and drones, and you can help them with that work.3 years ago ·
Crowdsourced coral: Scientists get creative in order to find reef 'hope spots'
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Citizen scientists and actual scientists can gather important data about the world's oceans.3 years ago ·
Crowdsourcing A Practical Indoor GPS
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Scientists in South Korea have developed an indoor locating technology using crowdsourced fingerprints from smartphones.3 years ago ·
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'EVE Online' is crowdsourcing the search for real exoplanets
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Seek out new life and new civilizations through a mini-game called "Project Discovery."3 years ago ·
'EVE Online' is crowdsourcing the search for real exoplanets
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Seek out new life and new civilizations through a mini-game called "Project Discovery."3 years ago ·
Crowdsourced Science Finds Four Candidates For Planet Nine
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A team of 60,000 volunteers analyzed nearly 5 million objects in 3 days in an effort to find Planet Nine.3 years ago ·
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NASA crowdsourcing search for Planet Nine — and citizen scientists are making some rare finds
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In just three days, about 21,000 volunteers sifted through more than 100,000 images and classified more than 5 million objects — work that would take an astronomy PhD student four years3 years ago ·
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NASA Wants the Public to Log In to Help Find Planet 9
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Citizen scientists can examine photos to help discover a new planet, which recent evidence suggests is hiding at the edge of the solar system4 years ago ·
'EVE Online' is crowdsourcing the search for real exoplanets
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Seek out new life and new civilizations through a mini-game called "Project Discovery."4 years ago ·
Scientists on Twitter Crowdsourcing List of Every Farting Animal | Nerdist
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Everyone Poops is arguably the most important, most informative children's book ever written. Going to the bathroom is a weird thing to comprehend for a kid. You put delicious food in your mouth, and ...4 years ago ·
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Researchers Crowdsource For Novel Malarial Drugs
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Once the domain of IT, researchers have adopted a crowdsourced approach to finding alternatives to artemisinin for malarial treatment.4 years ago ·