Pity your local weather forecaster. Rarely praised when correct, often vilified when wrong, weather forecasting is one of the most thankless jobs around. There’s at least one company that hopes to change all of that. Cumulonimbus Software, a Canadian company led by Jacob Sheehy and Phil Jones, has teamed up with Cliff Mass, a University of Washington […]
Sure, it’s September already, but there’s still plenty of warm weather left in most of North America. If you need an excuse to get outside again, a pilot project called the Atlas of North American Calling Insects could use your help. The atlas is designed to get a better idea of the distribution of those […]
BOINC, which is short for Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing, is a piece of software that you can download to your computer. With it, you’re able to donate spare computing time to big data projects, essentially allowing your computer to do your citizen science for you. Until recently, the software was only available for […]