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April 29, 2015
Magnifying the life of things with a smartphone microscope

Germinated bacillus anthracis spores stained and imaged with a smartphone microscope modified for fluorescence. Courtesy PNNL.

April 22, 2015
Crowdsourcing earthquake detection: Smartphones to the rescue

Earthquake warning systems are an expensive proposition — but not when crowdsourced via smartphones. Scientists recently tested consumer devices, and were surprised at what they found.

April 8, 2015
Citizen scientists earn their stripes with tiger-tagging app

Researchers from the University of Surrey, UK, have developed an iPad app that could change the way wildlife is monitored in the future. The Wildsense app loads photos of tigers from the web for analysis by players in return for points. These ‘citizen scientists’ examine these photos and provide further behavioral context that does not typically exist with the image alone. For example, how many tigers are in the image, what are the tigers doing, and what is their environment?

January 28, 2015
Explore the universe from the comfort of your home

Video courtesy GLORIA project (CC BY 3.0).

The GLORIA (GLObal Robotic telescope Intelligent Array for e-science) project has created an online portal that enables internet users to operate a network of 13 telescopes around the world and contribute to astronomical research.

December 3, 2014
Volunteer computing: 10 years of supporting CERN through LHC@home

LHC@home recently celebrated a decade since its launch in 2004. Through its SixTrack project, the LHC@home platform harnesses the power of volunteer computing to model the progress of sub-atomic particles traveling at nearly the speed of light around CERN’s Large Hadron Collider. The number of projects supported by LHC@home is growing and the platform now has over 100,000 users from across the globe.

September 10, 2014
Celebrating 10 years of Open Street Map

Watch how volunteers have contributed to the rapid growth of Open Street Map over the last decade.

Open Street Map recently celebrated its 10th anniversary. Founded by Steve Coast in the UK in 2004, the collaborative mapping project — through which volunteers can add and edit information — has since exploded in both size and popularity.

August 13, 2014
Will.i.am, Pharrell, Timbaland… step aside! It’s time for the crowd to produce some music

Fermín Serrano, coordinator of Europe’s Socientize project, tells iSGTW about a new collaborative musical experiment.

April 2, 2014
IT plays starring role at CineGlobe Film Festival

Last month, CERN played host to the CineGlobe International Film Festival. The event featured a hackathon event organized by the Tribeca Film Institute, as well as music produced through data sonification.

March 12, 2014
Citizen science — a power for change that’s here to stay

The Citizen Cyberscience Summit was held in London, UK, last month. The event featured a host of exciting projects, from classifying galaxies and enhancing solar panels, to growing sunflowers and analyzing baby laughter.

October 16, 2013
Engaging citizens in science for research excellence

Fermín Serrano, coordinator of Europe's 'Socientize' project, lays out his manifesto for citizen science. He argues that citizen science is much more than just a useful communication tool, or an efficient way of maximizing researchers' resources. He believes citizen science has the power to teach people important new skills and is a way to fundamentally democratize scientific research.

September 11, 2013
Join the dots to measure antimatter

The AEGIS experiment needs you! Discover how you can help analyse experimental results to figure out how antimatter is affected by gravity.

March 20, 2013
Playing mind games

Calling all citizen scientists. With the exploding availability of data, the need for analysis is steadily becoming a bottleneck in many scientific pursuits. Read about a project aimed at bringing neuroscience to the masses in a way that may surprise and inspire you to take part.