Can urban soil microbes reveal a faster path to healthier cities?
Environmental biology
Publish research & follow discovery
Yanca helps researchers turn early questions into public project pages, share methods and progress, and make scientific work easier to follow from idea to outcome.
Mapping low-cost diagnostics for clinics far from major labs.
Public health
Open tools for preserving field data before it disappears.
Open science
Studying resilient crops under hotter, less predictable seasons.
Climate research
42
research projects
11
fields of study
49%
active progress logs
7
research categories
open
for submissions
Helping make ideas real
Researchers are building on Yanca.
Yanca gives scientists and independent researchers a clear way to explain their work, organize project context, and keep collaborators updated as the project moves forward.
Pursue curiosity
Make serious research easier to discover and follow.
Important questions often begin in scattered notes, datasets, and fieldwork. Yanca turns them into public, credible project records.
Turn community into impact
Share the story behind the question.
Project pages make the hypothesis, method, timeline, and potential impact easier for collaborators and readers to understand.
Keep followers in the loop
Progress matters after the campaign.
Updates, notes, results, and artifacts help people follow how a question becomes evidence.
The Yanca method
Purpose-built for public research.
A simple way to prepare a research proposal, get feedback, publish progress, and share what happens after the work begins.
Create the research proposal
Explain the question, method, timeline, evidence plan, and why the work matters.
Get review before launch
Improve clarity, feasibility, ethics, and public communication before the project goes live.
Build a public project record
Give institutions, collaborators, and curious readers one place to understand the work.
Publish progress and results
Share notes, milestones, findings, and artifacts so people can follow the science.
Powerful tools to help science grow
Features for building trust around research.
Yanca is built around clear proposals, public updates, reusable project records, and collaboration between researchers and readers.
Document the project
Show the question, method, budget, team, and what success would make possible.
Organize the evidence
Keep methods, datasets, artifacts, citations, and project context connected.
Receive review
Make proposals stronger with feedback from people who understand the work.
Manage collaborators
Coordinate researchers, advisors, institutions, reviewers, and project contributors.
Project dashboard
Track updates, milestones, artifacts, citations, and public engagement.
Open progress notes
Share field notes, lab notes, files, methods, citations, and results over time.
Research programs on Yanca
Programs that make research easier to follow.
Yanca can host focused research programs for institutions, labs, companies, and communities that want clearer public project records.
$25K
Community biology index
A public collection for accessible, local, and independent biology research.
$50K
Climate fieldwork log
Project records for teams gathering climate, biodiversity, and land-use evidence.
$75K
Open tools for science
For researchers building software, datasets, methods, or public infrastructure.
What researchers say
Trusted by people who want the work to become real.
Yanca is for people who believe serious questions should be easier to publish, follow, and build on.
“A clear public project page makes it much easier to explain what we are studying and why it matters.”
Independent researcher
“The best research updates let people follow the work without needing private context.”
Program partner