Medicine & TechnologyCitizen scientists made the discovery by observing the brightness of the star over a month using the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite.
Migratory birds are both attracted and repelled by the light pollution in the cities. Researchers believe that cities can do something to help these migratory birds.
In a fantastic instance of citizen science, public onlookers helped scientists collect data on over 200 bird species at the Seven Islands State Birding Park in Kodak, Tennessee.
Researchers from Northwestern University have tapped citizen scientists, some 2,000 of them, for a crowd-based analysis of seismic recordings - an activity previously limited to specialized computers or trained professionals.
The public can be among the greatest contributing minds for modern science. With the help of new technologies, how far can publicly funded researches done by nonprofessional scientists go?