Four ways people stuck at home became armchair naturalists during lockdown
Citizen scientists have helped researchers track the changing environment during the pandemic.
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Pooling society’s collective intelligence helped fight COVID – it must help fight future crises too
The WHO is creating a Global Pandemic Radar – an example of collective intelligence that must learn lessons from this pandemic.
Citizen scientists discover new type of aurora
Scientists still don’t know what caused the mysterious phenomenon ‘Steve’.
Teen citizen scientists are giving us inside knowledge to fight disease
Convincing the public to not just take part in but to design and run research programmes is providing new behavioural insights for doctors.
AI is increasingly being used to identify emotions – here’s what’s at stake
Emotion recognition technology raises questions about bias, privacy and mass surveillance.
Why saving our blue planet may lie in the hands of citizen scientists
Seagrass medows support rich biodiversity. New research shows what you can do to protect them.
COVID litter: we mapped discarded masks and gloves in 11 countries with the help of citizen science
Masks are back in wider use in the UK and elsewhere. Our research highlights the need to dispose of them correctly.
Neither researchers nor the media can put down the world’s most mysterious book – and it’s a problem for science
The Voynich Manuscript has researchers, the media, and the public hooked. But pseudo-explanations for the book’s ‘code’ reveals a serious problem with society’s relationship with science.
Anthill 17: Science by the seaside
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.
We faced abuse for asking people to kill wasps for science – here’s why it was worthwhile
Killing insects, as the Big Wasp Survey asked people to do, contributed to many vital advances in science.
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