citizen science
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What’s Up With STEVE? New Finding Adds a Twist to the Aurora-Like Enigma
STEVE, a strange ribbon of purple and green haze discovered by citizen scientists in 2016, just got even weirder. While looking through archival data, a team of scientists discovered that the aurora-like phenomenon has a secret twin moving in the opposite direction. A photo of STEVE’s long-lost sibling hanging out above the Norwegian Arctic was…
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Climate Change Is Killing Butterflies in the American West
Butterflies play essential role in pollinating wild plants and crops. Which makes a new study published in Science on Thursday such bad news. It shows the climate crisis is posing an existential threat to their survival, particularly in the American West.
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These Are Some of the Best Citizen Science Projects You Can Join With Just Your Phone or Laptop
Maybe you’ve never noticed, because they don’t get a lot of hype but there are hundreds and hundreds of citizen science projects that you can get involved in. These projects range from tagging space observatory photos to transcribing documents that are centuries old. You don’t need any special skills or qualifications to help advance the…
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Man Takes First-Ever Photo Of Living Colombian Weasel After Finding It Standing On His Toilet
A man rediscovered the rarest South American carnivore after uploading a picture of it climbing on his toilet to a citizen science database.