Citizen scientists can inspire innovation and advance science education—and they are proving adept at self-policing.
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Amateur birders record an astounding number of species and individuals in the first ever worldwide avian stock taking.
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Three Silicon Valley entrepreneurs are offering $3 million to scientists demonstrating excellence in biology and medical research.
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The group that last year claimed to have sequenced the Sasquatch genome has finally published its data in a brand new “journal,” and geneticists are not impressed.
In an upcoming hearing, the US Supreme Court will decide on whether police can take DNA samples from suspects who have not been convicted.
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