The 2018 Australian Museum Eureka Prize winners include astrophysicist and science communicator Alan Duffy and the citizen science app QuestaGame.
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Elusive and mysterious by nature, ordinary people are revealing the secrets of the UK’s octopuses.
Climate change can seem far removed from our everyday lives, which is why a citizen science program measuring how frogs are dealing with a warming world is so important.
Astronomers are gathering an exponentially greater amount of data every day – so much that it will take years to uncover all the hidden signals buried in the archives.
We often focus on the “science” part of citizen science. The “citizen” is important as well. It reminds us that we are part of something greater than ourselves, with a duty to generations to come.
Does big data threaten how humans explore the natural world? We need to protect our impulses to observe, compare, play, discover and love, no matter what technological capabilities are available.
Citizen science isn’t just about charity – new research shows there are some quite unexpected benefits for participants.
Easy experiments that show the Earth is round.
It might feel like rocket science, but scientists need to get better at explaining things to people outside academia.
Humans - the very “carriers” who can spread dangerous microbes unthinkingly from their equipment and shoes - can instead become the first line of defence against a possible microscopic invasion.
The fourth Aussie Backyard Bird Count, which has just finished, has some potentially worrying news about one of our best-loved species.
Reef Life Survey, a citizen science project where hundreds of volunteer scuba divers survey thousands of ocean sites, has revealed new insights into marine mysteries.
With this technology, citizen scientists could even help to predict the damage caused by future disasters.
Killing insects, as the Big Wasp Survey asked people to do, contributed to many vital advances in science.
Anthill 17: Science by the seaside
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From the man who gave away his genome under open consent, to the 'Mathematikado', this episode of the podcast features highlights from the British Science Festival in Brighton.
Help us put this old wives’ tale to a scientific test.
Mapping the soil with open source application is vital to understanding how to protect it.
Science provides a useful way to explore and understand the natural world. But it also has a richness, diversity and creativity that is often overlooked.
The images are in from the Juno probe’s closest flyby so far of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot. Citizen scientists are now getting involved in processing those images.
We can overcome the tyranny of inaccessible science hardware by building a movement for equity in science.
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Curator, Amphibian & Reptile Conservation Biology, Australian Museum, UNSW
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Professor of Science Communication and Chemistry, University of Hull
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Sector Lead, Atlas of Living Australia, CSIRO
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Dean Students, College of Health, Adelaide University
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Lecturer, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor in Biology, Zoology and Animal Science, Western Sydney University
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Associate Professor in Ecology and Evolution, UNSW
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Evolution & Ecology Research Centre, UNSW Sydney, UNSW
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Clinical Associate Professor, School of Medical Science & Sydney Infectious Diseases Institute; Principal Hospital Scientist, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor, Animal Anatomy and Physiology, Charles Sturt University
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Associate Teaching Professor of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science and Manager of the Joel N. Myers Weather Center, Penn State
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Honorary Fellow, Space and Astronomy, CSIRO; Western Sydney University
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Chair of ARC Centre of Excellence for Quantum Biotechnology, The University of Queensland