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Public contributions to science increasingly common

Posted in Featured, Science on 19th Jan, 2016
by Alex Muller

Biology and ecology have a long tradition of citizen science. Researchers relied on the public to observe and classify animal and plant species for over 100 years.

Climate disputes have little effect on the public, says study

Posted in Science on 26th May, 2014
by Alex Muller

Researchers have tracked how media coverage can affect levels of public interest in climate science by comparing volumes of searches.