How can logging the things you see around your neighborhood help researchers and city managers?

I didn't really understand until having worked with these data sets how valuable these crowdsourced data can be and how they can really advance science.

It's Friday, May 31st, and you're listening to Science Friday.

I'm Scifry, producer D. Peter Schmidt. If you're an animal living in a city

there's a good chance that factors like buildings, artificial light and noise

pollution are going to make your daily life kind of a pain. But a new study reveals exactly which animals thrive

and which one struggle in urban environments,

thanks to crowd source data from an app called Inaturalist.

And you might be surprised by some of the results. We'll find out how

researchers use this app to make recommendations to the city of Los Angeles, but first,

here's guest host Ariel Dum Ross discussing the top news in science this week.

The next few days are shaping up to be busy in space

with a long delayed test flight carrying astronauts to the space station.

Here to talk about that and other stories from the Week in Science is Charles Bergquist,

Sci fries senior producer. Hey Charles. Hey Ariel.

So tell me about this launch. Why is it important? What's going on?

So this is a test flight of Boeing's starliner spacecraft. It's a demonstration to show to NASA that their new spacecraft, part of a program

NASA calls commercial crew, can be a practical and safe way to get people into orbit.

The spacecraft has been delayed a lot.

Most recently, it was supposed to launch on May 6th.

That launch was scrubbed due to a bad valve in a rocket booster. That booster

booster valve was replaced, but then they found another leak in the spacecraft's

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