Zooniverse Blogs

A Clerihew is a whimsical, four-line biographical poem invented by Edmund Clerihew Bentley. We had fun hearing your Haiku last week, so about some science- and Zooniverse-based Clerihews? One of the best known examples is: Sir Christopher Wren Said, “I am going to dine with some men. If anyone calls Say I am designing St. [...]

Our advent calendar gets really festive today with the publication of Zooniverse Cocktails. If you make any of these, please do take a picture or two so we can share them around. Tequila Solar Stormwatch Pour 2 shots of tequila in a highball glass with ice, and top with orange juice. Stir. Slowly add a [...]

During our last advent calendar we celebrated that our community had reached a total of 350,000 people. It’s been an incredible year. Several new projects, lots of fun and many scientific papers later – we expect to reach half a million Zooniverse users in the next day or so. Regardless of exactly when it happens, we [...]

We’re beginning on a new project utiltizing Galaxy Zoo data. Some background: Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) are accreting supermassive black holes at the centers of some galaxies. In some of these systems, we observe broad and narrow emission lines in the optical spectra whereas other systems only have narrow emission lines. (In the spectra of [...]

Today the Zooniverse launched Whale FM a new project in partnership with Scientific American. We have been working with marine biologists and have collected together more than 16,000 recordings of Whale calls. These calls come from Killer Whales and Pilot Whales – both actually species of dolphin! – and we need your help with listening to [...]

We’re inviting you – for a limited time only! – to take part in a big experiment! For our first ‘Zooniverse Lab’, we’ve partnered with NASA, who are training astronauts in an underwater environment. For the next two weeks they’re sending six astronauts, researchers and habitat technicians to live in an undersea habitat and work [...]

If you visit Zooniverse Home today you may notice that a few things have changed. For a while now we’ve wanted to improve the design of the site to better handle the growing range of projects that are part of the Zooniverse. With the updates released today we’ve completely reworked the look and feel of [...]