
Can Young People do Science?
Science is often seen as something only for the elite few. It requires years of training, hours poring over research papers and days performing experiments in the lab. Or does it? Citizen science – science by ordinary people – has skyrocketed in recent decades, driven largely by the rise of the internet and increased accessibility of a range of technologies. The scope is huge: from ordinary people classifying galaxies or identifying elusive creatures caught on camera traps, t