When most people think about science, they conjure images of pipettes, sterile equipment, and people in white lab coats. But science is a messy and human endeavor driven by obsession, courage, and ...

A citizen science study has found participants’ mental wellbeing is positively affected, in a variety of ways.

A frog croaks from a walking trail. A hiker snaps a photo and uploads it to iNaturalist. That single act—one person, one amphibian and one click—feeds into a growing global dataset that scientists now ...

The two of us can often be found in a patch of scrubby bushland, phone in hand, slowly scanning for plants. Or crouched ...

The Okefenokee Swamp is the largest black water swamp in North America, and provides habitat for animals like American alligators and blue herons. Credit: Megan Varner via Getty Images Corpus Christi ...

Most of us don’t wake up dreaming about joining a clinical trial. For decades, research was something that happened to other people: the hyper-healthy, the terminally curious, folks with more time on ...