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New, active Distributed Human project: Hawk Talk

Fri, 01 Feb 2019 00:00:00 MST

New, active Distributed Human project: Hawk Talk is documenting Red-Tailed Hawk vocalizations and behavior from a nest from an entire nesting season

New, active Distributed Human project: LOC Crowd

Fri, 01 Feb 2019 00:00:00 MST

New, active Distributed Human project: LOC Crowd is transcribing, reviewing, and tagging digitized images of manuscripts and typed materials from the Library of Congress collections

Exoplanet Explorers discovers new exoplanet K2-288B

Fri, 01 Feb 2019 00:00:00 MST

Exoplanet Explorers discovered exoplanet K2-288Bb, a small planet in a habitable zone (a type of exoplanet considered rare so far)

News article: New Project - Hawk Talk

Fri, 01 Feb 2019 00:00:00 MST

news article: New Project - Hawk Talk

News article: Public Gets Chance to Earn Block Rewards by Donating Computing Power to Scientific Research

Fri, 01 Feb 2019 00:00:00 MST

news article: Public Gets Chance to Earn Block Rewards by Donating Computing Power to Scientific Research

News article: Citizen scientists discover rare exoplanet

Fri, 01 Feb 2019 00:00:00 MST

news article: Citizen scientists discover rare exoplanet

News article: Volunteer scientists play important role in wildlife research project

Fri, 01 Feb 2019 00:00:00 MST

news article: Volunteer scientists play important role in wildlife research project

News article: OpenZika Team Adds New Resources to Continue Massive Data Analysis

Fri, 01 Feb 2019 00:00:00 MST

news article: OpenZika Team Adds New Resources to Continue Massive Data Analysis

News article: Science Edition: Citizen Science

Fri, 01 Feb 2019 00:00:00 MST

news article: Science Edition: Citizen Science

New, active Distributed Human project: Astronomy Rewind

Tue, 27 Nov 2018 00:00:00 MST

New, active Distributed Human project: Astronomy Rewind is classifying images scanned from old astronomy journals: to "make a holistic map of images of the sky extracted from Astrophysics Data System (ADS) literature."

News article: The Easiest Side Hustle Ever? Renting Out Your Phone When You're Asleep

Tue, 27 Nov 2018 00:00:00 MST

news article: The Easiest Side Hustle Ever? Renting Out Your Phone When You're Asleep

News article: Be A Part Of New Drug Discovery

Tue, 27 Nov 2018 00:00:00 MST

news article: Be A Part Of New Drug Discovery: the Conduit platform will make for-pay computing resources available to biotech companies

News article: From cancer to climate change: The tech you can use to save the world

Tue, 27 Nov 2018 00:00:00 MST

news article: From cancer to climate change: The tech you can use to save the world

News article: Citizen Scientists Give New Life And Value To Old Astrophotos

Tue, 27 Nov 2018 00:00:00 MST

news article: Citizen Scientists Give New Life And Value To Old Astrophotos; an overview of the Astronomy Rewind Zooniverse project

News article: Call for Citizen Scientists to Help Unravel the Mysteries of South Sudan's Forests

Tue, 27 Nov 2018 00:00:00 MST

news article: Call for Citizen Scientists to Help Unravel the Mysteries of South Sudan's Forests; an overview of the South Sudan DiversityCam Zooniverse project

News article: Hubble Researcher Focuses on Blockchain for Space Data Processing

Tue, 27 Nov 2018 00:00:00 MST

news article: Hubble Researcher Focuses on Blockchain for Space Data Processing

News article: Blockchain company Aikon teams up with the Hubble Space Telescope for deep space research

Tue, 27 Nov 2018 00:00:00 MST

news article: Blockchain company Aikon teams up with the Hubble Space Telescope for deep space research

News article: Cryptocurrency Mining is Hampering the Search for Alien Life

Tue, 27 Nov 2018 00:00:00 MST

news article: Cryptocurrency Mining is Hampering the Search for Alien Life

News article: Overclock puts your idle servers to work for other people

Tue, 27 Nov 2018 00:00:00 MST

news article: Overclock puts your idle servers to work for other people: Using Overclock's Akash Network, companies can turn their unused servers into Kubernetes-orchestrated Docker containers for rent

New, active Distributed Human project: Amazo'N'Oil

Thu, 12 Apr 2018 00:00:00 MDT

New, active Distributed Human project: Amazo'N'Oil is identifying animal species in the Amazon which might be exposed to oil pollution

New, active Distributed Human project: Grouse Grooves

Thu, 12 Apr 2018 00:00:00 MDT

New, active Distributed Human project: Grouse Grooves is studying Greater Sage-Grouse behavior and conservation efforts

New, active Distributed Human project: Reading Nature's Library

Thu, 12 Apr 2018 00:00:00 MDT

New, active Distributed Human project: Reading Nature's Library is discovering the treasures in Manchester Museum's collection

Uncovering Genome Mysteries produced 30 Terabytes of data to analyze

Thu, 12 Apr 2018 00:00:00 MDT

Uncovering Genome Mysteries produced 30 Terabytes of data when it completed in 2017. In November, 2017, the project's research teams began "analyzing this vast amount of data, and looking for ways to make it easy for other scientists and the public to understand."

News article: Overclock puts your idle servers to work for other people

Thu, 12 Apr 2018 00:00:00 MDT

News article: What you don�t know could hurt your computer

Thu, 12 Apr 2018 00:00:00 MDT

news article: What you don't know could hurt your computer

News article: It�s a movement: Amateur scientists are making huge discoveries

Thu, 12 Apr 2018 00:00:00 MDT

news article: It's a movement: Amateur scientists are making huge discoveries

News article: UNICEF recruits gamers to mine cryptocurrency for Syrian kids

Thu, 12 Apr 2018 00:00:00 MDT

news article: UNICEF recruits gamers to mine cryptocurrency for Syrian kids

News article: Crowdsourcing just found an entire star system

Thu, 12 Apr 2018 00:00:00 MDT

news article: Crowdsourcing just found an entire star system

News article: The K2-138 system: the first exoplanet system discovered by citizen scientists

Thu, 12 Apr 2018 00:00:00 MDT

news article: The K2-138 system: the first exoplanet system discovered by citizen scientists

News article: Planets around other stars like peas in a pod

Thu, 12 Apr 2018 00:00:00 MDT

news article: Planets around other stars like peas in a pod

News article: Chief AI Scientist: Bitcoin Mining Could Power Scientific Research

Thu, 12 Apr 2018 00:00:00 MDT

news article: Chief AI Scientist: Bitcoin Mining Could Power Scientific Research

News article: Research For All (a poem)

Thu, 12 Apr 2018 00:00:00 MDT

news article: Research For All (a poem)

News article: IBM to invest $200 million in climate change research

Thu, 12 Apr 2018 00:00:00 MDT

news article: IBM to invest $200 million in climate change research: To support the scientific community in its efforts to understand the impact of climate change, IBM is offering around $200 million for five climate-related projects that will leverage its World Community Grid network

News article: Analysis Underway on 30 Terabytes of Data from the Uncovering Genome Mysteries Project

Thu, 12 Apr 2018 00:00:00 MDT

news article: Analysis Underway on 30 Terabytes of Data from the Uncovering Genome Mysteries Project

News article: Crowdsourcing the forest for the trees

Thu, 12 Apr 2018 00:00:00 MDT

news article: Crowdsourcing the forest for the trees: an overview of the Amazon Aerobotany project

News article: Parasitic cryptocurrency mining, ad revenue and volunteer computing, a 3-sided coin

Thu, 12 Apr 2018 00:00:00 MDT

news article: Parasitic cryptocurrency mining, ad revenue and volunteer computing, a 3-sided coin

New, active Distributed Human project: African American Civil War Soldiers

Fri, 23 Mar 2018 00:00:00 MDT

New, active Distributed Human project: African American Civil War Soldiers is transcribing African American Civil War soldiers' military service records to learn more about these soldiers

New, active Distributed Human project: Invader ID

Fri, 23 Mar 2018 00:00:00 MDT

New, active Distributed Human project: Invader ID is tracking impacts of invasive species in fouling communities (communities of organisms that grow under boat docks) to "better predict which species are likely to invade nearby areas and what the impacts of an invasion might be."

News article: Ready, set, Zooniverse: Calgary's citizen-science link goes live

Fri, 23 Mar 2018 00:00:00 MDT

news article: Ready, set, Zooniverse: Calgary's citizen-science link goes live

News article: Let�s Talk About Bitcoin�s Insane Energy Consumption

Fri, 23 Mar 2018 00:00:00 MDT

news article: Let's Talk About Bitcoin's Insane Energy Consumption

News article: Get your phone solving cancer on World Cancer Day (and after)

Fri, 23 Mar 2018 00:00:00 MDT

news article: Get your phone solving cancer on World Cancer Day (and after)

New, active Distributed Human project: Interior Least Tern and Piping Plover Predators

Fri, 16 Mar 2018 00:00:00 MDT

New, active Distributed Human project: Interior Least Tern and Piping Plover Predators is identifying "predators of threatened and endangered species that nest within the Central Platte River Basin in Nebraska."

New, active Distributed Human project: Orangutan Nest Watch

Fri, 16 Mar 2018 00:00:00 MDT

New, active Distributed Human project: Orangutan Nest Watch is learning about the population densities and habitats of the critically endangered orangutans in Malaysian Borneo by searching through drone images of forest canopy and spotting orangutan nests and fig trees.

News article: Citizen scientists join in search for exoplanets

Fri, 16 Mar 2018 00:00:00 MDT

news article: Citizen scientists join in search for exoplanets

News article: What is 'cryptojacking' and why you need to worry about it

Fri, 16 Mar 2018 00:00:00 MDT

news article: What is 'cryptojacking' and why you need to worry about it

News article: Volunteers are wanted to transcribe justices' notes from SCOTUS conferences

Fri, 16 Mar 2018 00:00:00 MDT

news article: Volunteers are wanted to transcribe justices' notes from SCOTUS conferences

News article: Crypto Mining Gets in the Way of E.T. Search

Fri, 16 Mar 2018 00:00:00 MDT

news article: Crypto Mining Gets in the Way of E.T. Search: Cryptocurrency miners and their demand for GPUs are interfering with the search for alien life

News article: Blockchain startup Aura will offer gaming rewards for your idle computer time

Fri, 16 Mar 2018 00:00:00 MDT

news article: Blockchain startup Aura will offer gaming rewards for your idle computer time

News article: Salon Asks Users to Mine Cryptocurrency in Exchange for Ad-Free Site

Fri, 16 Mar 2018 00:00:00 MDT

news article: Salon Asks Users to Mine Cryptocurrency in Exchange for Ad-Free Site

New, active Distributed Human project: Anti-Slavery Manuscripts

Fri, 02 Mar 2018 00:00:00 MST

New, active Distributed Human project: Anti-Slavery Manuscripts is "transcribing Boston Public Library's extensive collection of handwritten correspondence between anti-slavery activists in the 19th century into texts that can be more easily read and researched by students, teachers, historians, and big data applications"

New, active Distributed Human project: Backyard Worlds: Planet 9

Fri, 02 Mar 2018 00:00:00 MST

New (to this site), active Distributed Human project: Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 is looking for brown dwarfs and a possible ninth planet in our solar system. It has found 8 brown dwarfs in the past year.

New, active Distributed Human project: SCOTUS Notes

Fri, 02 Mar 2018 00:00:00 MST

New, active Distributed Human project: SCOTUS Notes is transcribing handwritten conference notes from United States Supreme Court justices to provide access to their conversations in thousands of Court decisions

News article: U of M crowdsourcing project transcribes Supreme Court justices� handwritten notes

Fri, 02 Mar 2018 00:00:00 MST

news article: U of M crowdsourcing project transcribes Supreme Court justices' handwritten notes; an overview of the new SCOTUS Notes project

News article: Sofa Conservation

Fri, 02 Mar 2018 00:00:00 MST

news article: Sofa Conservation: How many elephants can you see? How many orangutans are in that tree? New conservation projects are hoping the answers to these questions can help protect endangered species around the world.