Posts Tagged ‘citizen scientists’
iPhones needed in NY to track stink bug
CORNELL (US) — A new hobo pest is pigging out on a significant number of North America’s most important crops in what experts say is an unprecedented threat to U.S. agriculture. Continue…
Monday, October 24, 2011 10:10 - 1 Comment
Science & Technology - Sep 29, 2011 10:39 - 4 Comments
Gamers succeed where scientists fail
U. WASHINGTON-SEATTLE (US) — Gamers have solved the structure of a retrovirus enzyme whose configuration had stumped scientists for more than a decade. (more…)
Science & Technology - Sep 26, 2011 8:30 - 0 Comments
Online hunters detect possible exoplanets
YALE (US) — Amateur astronomers working with the online citizen science project Planet Hunters have discovered two potential exoplanets, according to new research. (more…)
