citizen science

A new nonprofit is training citizen scientists to collect data on fish in the Great Lakes. They think it could be a game-changer for research in the…

A new report raises questions about the citizen science projects that emerged during the Flint Water Crisis. But critics charge the report’s authors have…

The Michigan Department of Natural Resources doesn’t have enough people out in the field to keep an eye on everything in nature, so it relies on hunters,…

Ann Arbor is joining a "guerrilla archiving" movement.Librarians, web developers and other volunteers are working fast to save scientific data from…

Technology has opened the doors in recent years for do-it-yourselfers to complete scientific projects without help from universities or government…

There’s a new project out of Michigan Technological University in Houghton that involves phone apps.The idea is to use apps to share information with…