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 ...

Twenty feature points were selected on the constructed 2D road network map (Ahmed’s method, Figure 11a) and 3D road network map (paper method, Figure 11b) and used for quantitative evaluation of ...

Nearly a decade later, the hunt for MH370 continues. We look at the citizen science initiatives that are analyzing satellite data, ocean drift models, and debris to narrow down where the plane might ...

Every time someone snaps a wildlife photo with iNaturalist, they might be fueling breakthrough science. From rediscovering lost species to helping conservation agencies track biodiversity and invasive ...

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 ...

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, ...

The 5 Gyres Institute is starting its annual initiative to track amounts of trash in National Parks. Any visitor to national parks can help by recording data about the trash they see in any U.S. park ...