One Million Volunteers Could One Day Revolutionize Medicine
NIH program promises to revolutionize medicine and cure some of the nation’s deadliest diseases. Hundreds of thousands of volunteers are needed.
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Designing Citizen Science Projects for Everyone
The National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine’s report, Learning Through Citizen Science: Enhancing Opportunities by Design, on how citizen science increases participant learning.
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Surfers Pick Up the Slack to Monitor Water
A massive network of surfers and citizen scientists is monitoring water quality and water contamination in places governments don’t.
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Book Review: Science By the People
In Science By the People, Kimura and Kinchy describe their challenging research subject: understanding how people are impacted by science.
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Unravel DNA with Citizen Science
You can help collect data for studies of DNA by mailing researchers your dog’s saliva, samples of the forest floor, and even spiny anteater scat.
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Photographing Starlink Satellites For Science
SpaceX and others plan to launch thousands of new satellites into low-Earth orbit, creating streaks that cut through astronomers’ images. Now educators at NASA are asking citizen scientists to help document the problem.
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Clearing the Air in the Historic West End
Equipped with air quality sensors, an African American neighborhood in Charlotte, North Carolina, is trying to reverse decades of environmental injustice.
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Book Review: Field Guide to Citizen Science
Book Review: Field Guide to Citizen Science: How You Can Contribute to Scientific Research and Make a Difference
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Phendo: Understanding Endometriosis
In 2016, Noémie Elhadad and her lab at Columbia University’s Irving Medical Center created the Phendo, or “phenotyping endometriosis,” app, to better understand and identify symptoms of endometriosis. Endometriosis is a painful condition that causes overgrowth of the endometrium, or inner lining of the uterus, such that it grows outside the uterus and into other places in the body. Their goal is to fill in the gaps of knowledge about how individuals experience the disease on a day-to-day basis. The app invites anyone over the age of 13 who has…
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Regular People Are Changing How We Monitor Air Quality
Low cost, high impact: How access to sensors is changing everything in air quality research. Air quality: It’s about us The ways we hear about air pollution can make us think it’s not about us. Large industrial stacks, smoky skies, and cities far away — filled with people we’ve never met, in places we don’t expect to be. Articles on the front pages of major news outlets describe air pollution in India, China, and Bangladesh, and they don’t always make the connection with people like me who live in the…
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