Help scientists understand memory with Mind Games

April 17, 2019

University of York, supported by the Wellcome Trust, have developped a game to understand how brains ability to remember & filter out distractions changes with age, and to find out if we can develop strategies […]

QuestaGame article in Forbes: Games + Crypto for Biodiversity

April 16, 2019

Andrew Robinson and his wife Mallika together with David Haynes launched a private tech start-up in 2014 and released QuestaGame, a game to help biodiversity. See the coverage in Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/natalieparletta/2019/04/15/the-entrepreneur-who-is-using-video-games-and-cryptocurrency-to-protect-biodiversity/#59891ec969de

QuestaGame Claims Top Science Prize for Innovation in Citizen Science

November 5, 2018

Games are not normally on the agenda when the cream of Australia’s science community come together each year to celebrate their achievements. This year, however, the nature mapping game, ‘QuestaGame,’ was a winner at the […]

Could the National Institutes of Health fund your next game?

September 21, 2018

During the European Citizen Science conference last June, together with the Human Computation Institute, we organised a workshop and a networking event about games that help scientific research. At the workshop, Dr Jennifer Couch, the […]

There will be a few roundtables related to games for science at D.I.C.E Cannes

August 24, 2018

This year, the theme for D.I.C.E. Europe is Trailblazers. “Game makers will share insights into the groundbreaking principals and tools that drive and empower them, their teams, and the community at large to create better […]

EteRNA researchers teaching old DNA sequencers new tricks

July 29, 2018

A recent article in Nature, titled ‘The hackers teaching old DNA sequencers new tricks’, describes how EteRNA researchers are hacking old DNA sequencers to reveal RNA secrets. […] For Stanford biophysicist Rhiju Das, such RNA […]

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