Cancer Research UK Hosts Hackathon to Build a Smartphone Research Game

March 4, 2013

Citizen Scientists Join Cancer Research UK for Hackathon This past weekend, top developers at Facebook, Google and Amazon Web Services joined research academics and public attendees for a Cancer Research UK hackathon to utilize crowdsourced […]

Play a game to help figure out how the eye works

December 10, 2012

Play a game to help figure out how the eye works Who says staring at a computer screen isn’t good for your eyes? Well, okay, in the short term, too much screen time isn’t good, […]

Skip FarmVille: play Phylo instead

December 10, 2012

Skip FarmVille: play Phylo instead Phylo is a nifty Flash-based game designed to help researchers figure out multiple sequence alignments (MSAs). MSAs are ways of aligning DNA or RNA to discover areas that are similar. […]

Excerpt of the Q&A with Sebastian Seung about the game Eyewire

November 8, 2012

What is a connectome, and why does it matter? Look inside the mind with Sebastian Seung in this Q&A, originally published in Time. Sebastian Seung is a multi-disciplinary expert whose research efforts have spanned the […]

Citizen Science Enters a New Era

April 8, 2012

From China to the Congo, a new wave of volunteer science projects aims to allow amateur participants to actively gather data for the benefit of their communities. Earthquake researchers have a problem. So do scientists […]

Adrien Treuille (EteRNA), excerpt of the interview for Forbes

October 27, 2011

Adrien Treuille, an assistant professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University, creates online challenges that tap gamers to solve complex scientific problems. Players of Foldit, an Internet video game he co-developed as a biochemistry […]

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