The actual eco-friendliness of ecotourism varies considerably. One research station in the Peruvian Amazon is out to prove it can bring visitors to the area without disrupting the environment.

A global study integrates field surveys, satellite data, and citizen-science observations to map plant traits, revealing how plants function across ecosystems. Citizen science fills data gaps and ...

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 ...

Narrowband signal detection as a potential indicator of artificial radio emissions. Doppler drift correction to account for relative motion between Earth and distant transmitters. Rigorous filtering ...

Space Force Guardian and NASA Astronaut Brig. Gen. Nick Hague speaks with Airmen, Guardians and families during a base-wide presentation where he spoke about his experiences at the International Space ...

Record-breaking total of 15,000+ citizen science observations from the SETI Institute & Unistellar Network — up substantially from ~10,000 in 2024. Observers are already tracking fading 3I/ATLAS, new ...

On a sunny day in the fall of 2024, I was surrounded by what’s best described as controlled chaos. After 30 minutes of reviewing the protocols for collecting and recording data about Pacific mole ...

NASA is inviting the public to join 36 citizen science projects. Volunteers can help with discoveries from asteroids to Martian clouds. To join, email do-nasa-science-join@lists.nasa.gov with ...

Citizen remade its entire image when it launched the Tsuyosa sports watch in 2022. The watch featured an automatic movement — a rarity at the time for the brand most associated with solar-powered ...

Thousands of scientific papers have used data collected by users of the platform iNaturalist, according to new research. By Emily Anthes In the spring of 2019, a nature photographer hiking in the ...

You are probably familiar with initiatives like Seti@Home, where you donate unused computer power to some science project that needs computer cycles. [Jeff Yoshimi] wants to borrow your most powerful ...