A new paper from researchers at Swiss university EPFL suggests that between 33% and 46% of distributed crowd workers on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk service appear to have “cheated” when performing a ...

On a Saturday evening – August 11, 2018 – Norfolk, Virginia, was deluged with a massive amount of rain. Shortly after 5 PM, individual citizens made 108 flood reports at 102 different locations using ...

Using crowdsourced data from shore cleanups, researchers found that areas that enacted plastic bag bans or fees had fewer bags littering their lakes, rivers and beaches than those without them. By ...

Although T-Mobile's cellular satellite service is restricted to text messaging in dead zones, a team of researchers from Spain used crowdsourced data to estimate download speeds of 4Mbps. There's ...

The brain of a fruit fly is so small that it can fit on the head of a pin. And yet, it is an inordinately complex object, encompassing nearly 140,000 neurons and 50 million synapses. It is no wonder, ...