Research has shown that the expansion of citizen involvement in important decisions regarding community services and policies greatly improves healthcare outcomes

Finding opens the door for much broader participation in citizen science

"We see that in particular researchers in the natural sciences have collected and classified data with the help of interested volunteers," researcher says.

“Participating in science does more than teach people about science,” study co-author says.

Citizen scientists around the world are busy as bees for a University of Florida study.

IBM's SoftLayer cloud-enabled World Community Grid to provide free virtual supercomputer power to The Scripps Research Institute to speed screening of promising chemical compounds.

Microbes are not only a rich source of disease, but also a rich source of medicines, and experts think many life-saving compounds produced by as-yet-unnamed bacteria are awaiting discovery. But they don’t always give up their secrets easily. Researchers must know where to look to find promising bacteria, and how to get them to grow in the lab, the traditional route to identifying potentially valuable molecules they produce.

McGill online game expands to connect global scientific community with citizen scientists.