Now you can borrow science equipment from local libraries and help researchers advance science, like by measuring light in the night skies in your community.

The Globe at Night citizen science project has been up and running since 2006 and uses naked eye observations, or those without a telescope, and shows the important role that citizen science data ...

In light-polluted landscapes, birds' singing time is an average of 50 minutes longer per day. It's still unclear if this hurts bird health or helps.

Scientists have speculated about how Archimedes’ death ray purportedly harnessed sunlight to burn ships. Now, a teen may have evidence the device was plausible.

With the help of thousands of citizen scientists, a new study measured exactly how much brighter night skies are getting every year.

A worldwide study of more than 4 million birdcalls has found that birds are singing for nearly an hour longer each day ...

Maybe you’ve never noticed, because they don’t get a lot of hype but there are hundreds and hundreds of citizen science projects that you can get involved in. These projects range from tagging ...

Ferroelectrics are seen as promising candidates for the electronics of tomorrow. An experiment at the world's largest X-ray ...