Articles in the Category: Citizen science
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astronomy, Citizen science, Space, Video on 07 7th, 2011 | No Comments
NASA Wants You to Help Spot Icy Blobs
All of the space data that the Hubble Telescope is broadcasting is far too much for a handful of scientists to sift through in a timely manner. So using the power of technology and the time and interest of citizen scientists several space-based science projects are underway through a project called...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Citizen science, Featured Articles, Health and Medicine, Scientainment, The Brain, Video on 06 17th, 2011 | No Comments
Music in the Name of Science
An exhibition which doubles as a huge, interactive science experiment has opened in New York. The Dublin Science Gallery’s Biorhythm: Music and the Body show immerses its visitors in a world of sonic experiences to see how they respond to different musical stimuli. Tara Cleary from Reuters reports.
But...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Backyard Science, Citizen science, Plants, Scientainment, Video on 06 8th, 2011 | No Comments
New Science App for Leaf Peepers
Attention smart phone toting leap peepers. If you’ve ever wondered what type of tree was nearby but didn’t have a guide book, finding the answer is now as easy as taking a snapshot with your smart phone.
LeafSnap is a new smart phone application developed by Columbia University and University...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astronomy, Backyard Science, Citizen science, SciArt, Scientainment, Space, Video on 05 12th, 2011 | 1 Comment
Shooting Stars
Seattle marketing director Nick Risinger quit his job to travel the world in search of the perfect picture of the night sky. The 29-year-old amateur astronomer took a year and traveled from the southwestern U.S. to South Africa, taking thousands of digital color photos of all billions of stars in both...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Citizen science, Computer Science, Engineering, Inventions, Podcast, SciArt, Video on 03 28th, 2011 | No Comments
Building Dreams from Scratch
A new membership-based, do-it-yourself fabrication and manufacturing space allows engineers and inventors to work on their gadgets using the latest in high-tech equipment. Tech Shop has opened facilities in California with plans to expand across the country.
It’s like your father’s workshop...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Anthropology, Around the Americas, Citizen science, Climate Change, Environment, Geology, Marine Science, Scientainment, Space, Video on 01 28th, 2011 | No Comments
Science Tourists Explore New Ways to Travel
If Jonas Salk and Carl Sagan are your celebrities, we have a trip for you. From researching global warming in Antarctica to monitoring space flight, Bloomberg Businessweek explores the growing tourism niche of science travel.
It’s a marriage of ecotravel and scientific research.
Here are some...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Backyard Science, Citizen science, Physics and Chemistry, Video on 01 10th, 2011 | No Comments
Google Starts Virtual Science Fair
Search giant Google is launching the first online global science fair, tomorrow at 6:00 a.m. PST. A live event at the science fair YouTube page will have all the details.
The virtual science fair begins tomorrow and is geared toward students ages 13-18. But that’s all that the company is telling...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Citizen science, Discoveries, Featured Articles, SciLebs on 12 23rd, 2010 | No Comments
8 Year Olds Publish Bee Study in Royal Society Journal
Children of Blackawton School in Devon, England learn about bee behavior
A group of UK primary school children have achieved a world first by having their school science project accepted for publication in an internationally recognized peer-reviewed Royal Society journal. No one will dispute that this...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Adaptation and Extinction, Animals, Citizen science, Climate Change, Ecology, Video on 12 20th, 2010 | No Comments
Citizen Science for the Birds
The National Audubon Society has sponsored an annual winter bird count for over 100 years. This year’s Christmas Bird Count will include 60,000 volunteers from all over the country who will look for and record birds for two weeks.
This is perhaps one of the oldest forms of citizen science. It...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astrobiology, Astronomy, Citizen science, Featured Articles, Space, Video on 12 17th, 2010 | No Comments
Citizen Science Hits Outer Space in Search of New Planets
NASA’s Kepler mission positioned a powerful telescope outside Earth’s atmosphere last year to begin taking pictures of a section of space known to house about 200,000 stars. For Yale astronomers this presents an incredible opportunity — to discover which of those stars have planets...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astronomy, Citizen science, Computer Science, Discoveries, Space, Video on 08 13th, 2010 | No Comments
Citizen Scis Make Big Astronomical Discovery Using Computer Down Time
Citizen scientists Chris and Helen Colvin from Ames, Iowa, and Daniel Gebhardt from Mainz, Germany participate in Einstein@Home, a distributed computing program that involves a quarter of a million volunteers worldwide.
They donated their idle computer time to analyze data gathered by the world’s...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Backyard Science, Citizen science, Engineering, Environment, Physics and Chemistry, Space, Video on 08 10th, 2010 | 1 Comment
Droid-1 Blows into Illegal Operation
Science enthusiast Bobby Russell launched his Quest for Stars program last week by sending a helium-filled weather balloon about 107,000 feet up, to the edge of space. On board, Russell outfitted the styrofoam payload bay with cameras, GPS and a Motorola Droid smartphone set to take pictures every seven...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astronomy, Backyard Science, Citizen science, SciClips, Space on 01 21st, 2010 | 1 Comment
Help NASA Image Mars
Here’s your chance to make scientific history. NASA is inviting the public to help choose sites on Mars to point a high-powered camera as part of a visual survey of the Red Planet.
The HiRISE camera aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has shot over 13,000 images already. Now NASA is opening...
