Citizen science games: the ultimate list

December 10, 2015

Citizen science games: the ultimate list This week, by request: a huge list of citizen science games you can play and enjoy while contributing to the greater good. Go have fun! Astro Drone – Created […]

Dizeez Crowdsources Cures by Bringing Games Into Health Research

August 17, 2015

Playing a game could help uncover a potential cure for breast cancer, lung cancer or any number of diseases that have a genetic component. The game is called Dizeez, and it’s got some geneticists excited […]

Questagame: a fun game to engage kids to engage with nature

March 31, 2015

Questagame is fun, easy-to-use, and promotes activity in nature and learning about local wildlife. It’s a free game to load onto your smartphone or tablet, and then take outside on searches for wildlife. It’s designed […]

Nanocrafter: Playing a Game of Synthetic Biology

February 22, 2015

On its surface, it looks like just another science puzzle game. In reality, the game is part of a broader goal to enable non-scientists to contribute to synthetic biology research. ‘It’ is Nanocrafter, a project […]

FoldIt Game Finds New Health Application Researching Ebola Treatments

January 13, 2015

The game “FoldIt” has emerged as one of the more prominent examples of how games have applications in health, challenging players to fold a computer image of a protein into shapes that could be used […]

Video games have cultural cachet – so recognise their place in society and history

December 17, 2014

Video games have cultural cachet – so recognise their place in society and history Ashok Ranchhod, University of Southampton and Vanissa Wanick Vieira, University of Southampton The UK’s video games industry body Tiga has called […]

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