Identifying weeds, checking out the pollen map, or discovering new plant life-forms are among the promising wealth of data ...

The sky above us is a complex ecosystem, just like the land and sea. A new field of research is bringing a fresh understanding of the birds, bugs and other species that live there Dustin Partridge of ...

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

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The Colorado Museum of Natural History started out in 1900 with the Edwin Carter Collection of taxidermied birds and mammals, plus some butterflies, moths and crystallized gold, in a modest display in ...