Sea Hero Quest game aims to diagnose dementia by testing navigation skills By AMELIA HEATHMAN, 17 November 2016 2.4 million people have downloaded the app created by neuroscientists to help them understand dementia. Hilary Evans, […]
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It seems that scientific research in the last two hundred years or so has made a full conceptual circle. In the good old days of the nineteenth century, any Englishman with a vaguely middle-class background, […]
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. […]
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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