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The Citizen Scientist runs articles by both amateur and professional scientists. Our features cover a broad range of scientific subjects, and other areas related to the practice and impact of science in everyday life.

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The Sibley Guide to Birds by David Allen Sibley

Bebop to the Boolean Boogie. An
Unconventional Guide to Electronics
by Clive Maxfield

Calculus Made Easy by Silvanus P. Thompson

A Field Guide to the Bacteria
by Betsey Dexter Dyer

Mathematics From the Birth of Numbers by Jan Gullberg

The Universal History of Numbers. From
Prehistory to the Invention of the Computer
by Georges Ifrah

The Oxford Guide to Library Research
by Thomas Mann

RECENT ANNOUNCEMENTS

Now available...

Proceedings of the SAS Virtual Conference on Informal Science Education Spring 2004


Proceedings and Presentations of the First Annual Citizen Science Conference
Philadelphia, PA, June 28-29, 2002

 

LATEST FEATURES
Updated 14 May 2004

Measuring Dust on the Red Planet: Muscle Wires On Mars by Roger G. Gilbertson

Every day we awake to a world of chance. Anything can happen, and usually we work hard to keep things from happening: bad things, unexpected things, things that disrupt our routines, that prevent us from performing tasks we've agreed to do, or that we think we must do. More.

Leaping Headlong Toward an Uncertain Future by Jim Lindelien

Not content with waiting his turn in line, this playful little fellow is poised for a ten-foot leap down to a one-inch wide rope three stories above the ground. More.

A Closer Look: Ladybug by Bill Dembowski

Whether you call them ladybugs, ladybeetles, or ladybirds the members of the family Coccinellidae (meaning "little sphere") are beautiful little beetles and well deserving of a closer look. More.


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