You can do your bit to help with dementia research right now. Just download and play Sea Hero Quest on your smartphone. Researchers at University College London are collecting data on how brains navigate, according […]
At his laboratory console, Rhiju Das is making a game of a pressing public-health problem. He is recruiting thousands of videogamers to develop a better test for tuberculosis, which infects about one-third of the world’s […]
Though it’s the world’s top infectious killer, tuberculosis is surprisingly tricky to diagnose. Scientists think that video gamers can help them create a better diagnostic test. An online puzzle released Monday will see whether the […]
Despite major progress in the last 15 years, the reduction of the burden of malaria and tuberculosis remains a key objective for global health. Between 2000 and 2014, 43 million lives were saved through effective […]
How Eve Online players are helping medical science The Human Protein Atlas is a scientific research program whose goal is to map the human proteome. With this information medical science can better explain the biological […]
Humans routinely solve problems of immense computational complexity by intuitively forming simple, low-dimensional heuristic strategies. Citizen science (or crowd sourcing) is a way of exploiting this ability by presenting scientific research problems to non-experts. ‘ […]
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