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There are dozens (possibly hundreds) of active citizen science projects out there. This short list provides a small sample of the diversity of projects available for you to involve your students in. Many of these projects also make the collected data available on their website so that anyone (including your students) can study it.Science 2.0 | Home
You can sign up and test it out for yourself. So far Im a bit confused as to how to add revewers etc. It looks like the site is set up to publish open scientific publications.
The London Citizen Cyberscience Summit is a great chance for scientists and citizens to learn about the latest breakthroughs in citizen cyberscience. It will be a unique opportunity to brainstorm about how new technologies can enhance citizen cyberscience. A bold ambition of the summit is to draft a citizen cyberscience manifesto , involving all the stakeholders in the field.
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Your chance to be internationally famous. The author I mentioned in the previous news item would also like to interview someone outside of the US, hopefully in an interesting location. Again, contact me if you fit the bill. 5 Apr 2012 | 19:47:58 UTC · Comment Your chance to be famous. We've been contacted by one of the authors of a book/multimedia project called "The Human Face of Big Data."Stardust@Home
Welcome to Stardust@home, Phase IV. Beginning in 2006, NASA’s Stardust@home citizen science project allows anyone with Internet access to help in the search for the first samples of solid matter from outside the solar system. To learn more, including how to participate, please click on the About tab above or on any of the links below under “More Information.”
Rosetta@home
Mar 14, 2012 Rosetta@Home software updated to version 3.24. This update includes support for symmetry in the hybrid protocol for comparative modeling. If you encounter any issues, please let us know here Last year we described in Science magazine the design of a new enzyme which catalyzes a chemical reaction called the Diels Alder reaction involving the formation of two carbon-carbon bonds.
- The window title is now [Foldit - Puzzle Title - Track] instead of just [Foldit]. If you are in the default track, it will be just [Foldit - Puzzle Title]. Move tool: - The move tool has been changed to give you a bit more control. Before the axis of rotation would always be around the center of the protein.
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“ The CSA is a collaboration of scientists, software developers and educators who collectively develop, manage and utilise internet-based citizen science projects in order to further science itself, and the public understanding of both science and of the scientific process. These projects use the time, abilities and energies of a distributed community of citizen scientists who are our collaborators ” On this site you can find out who we are , how we're organised and read about our Projects and about the philosophy behind them. You can also find out how you or your institution can get involved .
Citizen Science Alliance
Citizen Science Alliance
Our projects live within the 'Zooniverse' the home of Citizen Science on the web. Each is inspired by a science team who provide the initial ideas, the reassurance that what we're doing can make a real contribution and an audience who are willing to use the end result. We are working with a wide variety of partners, from classicists to climate scientists and ecologists to planetary scientists, but the following projects are now available:
Gaming the System: Video Gamers Help Researchers Untangle Protein Folding Problem: Scientific American
News | More Science The combined effort of more than 50,000 online video game players may help scientists better understand how proteins fold, solving one of biochemistry's greatest conundrums ORGANIC ORIGAMI: A screen shot of a Foldit puzzle. The protein's color is based on point values and biochemical properties.Video: Crowdsourcing can help solve scientific problems | Science | guardian.co.uk
Interactive, online games are being used to crack complex scientific conundrums, says a report in Nature . And the wisdom of the 'multiplayer' crowd is delivering a new set of search strategies for the prediction of protein structuresToday's issue of Nature contains a paper with a rather unusual author list. Read past the standard collection of academics, and the final author credited is... an online gaming community. Scientists have turned to games for a variety of reasons, having studied virtual epidemics and tracked online communities and behavior , or simply used games to drum up excitement for the science .
Gamers beat algorithms at finding protein structures
Last week a curious, free release popped up on Steam: Moonbase Alpha , a NASA-funded game where up to six players can team up in order to save a near-future Lunar base crippled by a meteor strike. The game is just the first release from NASA's Learning Technologies program, which aims to help raise interest in the space program through gaming. Ars spoke with Daniel Laughlin, project manager of Learning Technologies, to learn more about the game and what we can expect to see in the future. The game was codeveloped by Army Game Studio and Virtual Heroes, two of the leading developers of "serious games."
NASA-funded game aims to make science more appealing
Want to help spread the word about BOINC? One way is to talk about it at a meeting of your local computer user's group. A BOINC user describes his experience doing this . 6 Mar 2012 | 22:24:47 UTC · Comment Welcome SAT@home
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Around the world, the pace, complexity and social significance of technological changes are increasing. But the far-reaching social ramifications are often not understood until after new technologies become entrenched. This can result in important lost opportunities, significant social, economic, and environmental costs, and channeling societal development down long-term unhealthy paths. ECAST will comprise a national network of nonpartisan policy research institutions, universities, and science centers working together to conduct nonpartisan and balanced technology assessments. The founding institutional partners in ECAST are: