Open-Phylo: give science back to the people

October 23, 2013

It seems that scientific research in the last two hundred years or so has made a full conceptual circle. In the good old days of the nineteenth century, any Englishman with a vaguely middle-class background, […]

Citizen Science Enters a New Era

April 8, 2012

From China to the Congo, a new wave of volunteer science projects aims to allow amateur participants to actively gather data for the benefit of their communities. Earthquake researchers have a problem. So do scientists […]