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 ...

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 ...

Using crowdsourced data from shore cleanups, researchers found that areas that enacted plastic bag bans or fees had fewer bags littering their lakes, rivers and beaches than those without them. By ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...