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Since 2014, 49,520 registered volunteers have classified penguins, chicks, and eggs in Antarctic photos; more than 6 million classifications helped build a colony datasetThe Penguin Watch initiative witnessed enthusiastic participation from citizen scientists who contributed to penguin counting efforts in An...- 81-year-old billionaire John Poindexter with no wife or children plans to spend his entire net worth reviving a Texas ghost town with just 25 residentsJohn Poindexter, an 81-year-old Texas billionaire with no wife or children, plans to use his fortune to restore Shafter, a former silver-mi...
- By 2013, about 15,000 volunteers had listened to whale recordings and matched calls 200,000 times: Their answers helped confirm how pilot whale calls are groupedIn 2013, an impressive assembly of 15,000 volunteers engaged in the Whale FM project, aiming to classify the intricate calls of whales. The...
- In 2019, over 1,000 volunteers searched for viruses inside infected cells; in 2 months, they made 90,000 classificationsScientists engaged over 1,000 volunteers through an online project to help analyze viruses in cells. Participants clicked on images to iden...
- In 2016, 10,000 volunteers searched images of Mars for strange spider-like patterns; they found the formations in places where scientists hadn't seen them beforeIn 2016, nearly 10,000 volunteers worked together to analyze images of Mars, identifying intriguing spider-like formations. Collaborating w...
- In 2012, 18,000 volunteers classified 1 million cyclone images; their crowdsourced assessments helped scientists study past stormsInitiated in 2012, the Cyclone Center mobilized volunteers to classify hurricanes via satellite imagery. This groundbreaking initiative sou...
- Meet Sophie Zeng, the 17-year-old California student who built an app to identify invasive plants after learning they can become overlooked wildfire fuelProject ARISE expanded its work by organizing invasive-plant removal drives, habitat restoration efforts and environmental workshops in col...
- BRICS adopts New Delhi Declaration: Inside the 140-point document on Global South's ambitionsBRICS leaders adopted the New Delhi Declaration at the 18th summit, reaffirming their commitment to cooperation, multilateralism and a more...
- In 2019, 11,482 Hubble Asteroid Hunter volunteers helped train an AI that scanned 37,000 Hubble images; the combined effort uncovered 1,701 asteroid trails, including 1,031 unknown objectsCitizen scientists helped astronomers find over one thousand new asteroids. These faint objects were previously missed by earlier surveys a...
- In 2013, more than 16,000 Old Weather-Arctic volunteers transcribed handwritten Arctic ship logs, while 275,000 scanned pages contained about 23 million weather and sea-ice observationsThrough dedicated efforts, volunteers meticulously transcribed aged ship logs, unearthing essential historical weather information. This ci...
- Meet Claire Jiang, the 18-year-old New Jersey student diagnosed with juvenile arthritis at 9 who built a lab model of the disease; her research won $70,000Claire Jiang turned her own experience with juvenile arthritis into a research project that could give scientists a new way to study the di...
- At 18, this Virginia teen helped 70 young volunteers to restore the Chesapeake Bay. They removed nearly 5,000 pounds of debris in a yearAt just a teenager, James Hemphill launched a remarkable six-year environmental initiative. Co-founding Project Green Teens, he rallied num...
- Quote of the day by Albert Einstein: 'A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.' Life lessons from motivational quote on ego, true fulfillment, self-centeredness, empathy and connectionQuote of the day by Albert Einstein, “A person starts to live when he can live outside himself,” explains how life can gain meaning when pe...
- In 1970, NASA launched two bullfrogs into orbit to study vestibular function; over six days, the animals provided hours of data on balance in weightlessnessIn 1970, an extraordinary experiment sent two frogs, Pierre and Tee-Nom, into orbit around Earth. Researchers closely examined their inner ...
- In 1995, Florida sank three F-106 jets off Bay County; later surveys found reef fish and greater amberjack around the aircraftIn an innovative effort to bolster marine life, retired fighter jets are strategically submerged off the coast of Florida, transforming int...
- In 2024, Agiro planted 580 trees and shrubs at a former waste site in Quebec City. Today, surveys have found more than 160 plant species and 50 bird species are thriving around the recovering siteAgiro is restoring a former 1.8-hectare construction waste disposal site at the foot of Mont-Brillant in Quebec City’s Saint-Charles River ...
- Science says your skin can wrinkle differently depending on the weather — what humidity does to the skin barrierPermanent wrinkles are linked to long-term structural changes in the skin, including the breakdown and remodeling of collagen, elastin and ...
- Science says your feet can swell by evening and physics is the reason, here’s why your shoes may feel tighter at nightChanges in foot size throughout the day are a simple example of biomechanics and cardiovascular physiology working continuously without con...
- In 2020, 10-year-old Murphy picked up a tiny spider from a remote Australian island; he took it to experts, who later identified a completely new species & named it after himA young boy discovered a previously unknown spider species on a remote Australian island. Scientists later identified the tiny wolf spider ...
- Khelo India Dialogue: PM Modi to motivate youth to take up sports, shape India's futurePrime Minister Narendra Modi will engage with youth on India's sporting journey. The Khelo India Dialogue will focus on aspirations and you...
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