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 […]
Humans best computers in atom-snatching game By Adrian Cho, Apr 13, 2016 Bring Home Water relies on people’s knack for performing tasks that involve dynamic movement. […] Jacob Sherson, the physicist at Aarhus University in […]
EteRNA Leads Crowdsourcing Efforts To Help Scientist Better Understand RNA Molecules A game called EteRNA is being used to further research into how RNA folds itself into particular shapes. The game is a way of […]
What can the general public contribute to scientific research? Quite a lot as it turns out… Imagine how many hours are spent worldwide every day playing Bejeweled, or Angry Birds, or Candy Crush. We’d hesitate […]
This editorial was written by Thomas A Rowles for BMC Biochemistry – See page 4 for more details http://bmcbiochem.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471-2091-14-26 Introduction What constitutes a scientist, and do you have to be a professional researcher to perform […]
This article was originally written by Stuart Farrimond for realdoctorstu.com https://realdoctorstu.com/2011/02/15/earn-a-nobel-prize-in-your-lunch-break-the-best-citizen-science-games-reviewed/ It sometimes feels like we are an endangered species. Computers just keep getting smarter; not only are they immeasurably better at doing maths and […]
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