Leveraging gamers and video game technology can dramatically boost scientific research, according to a new study published today in Nature Biotechnology.
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 15, 2024
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Creating multiple universes to see how they run might be tempting to scientists, but it's obviously not possible. That is, as long as you need physical universes. If you can make do with virtual ones, there are far more options.
Astronomy
Apr 8, 2024
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Artificial Intelligence (AI)—models that process large and diverse datasets and make predictions from them—can have many uses in nature conservation, such as remote monitoring (like the use of camera traps to study animals ...
Ecology
Mar 27, 2024
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Modern methods of internet-based communication such as online gaming and video calls are helping RAF servicepeople stay connected to their families when serving away from home—but challenges still remain, according to new ...
Social Sciences
Mar 15, 2024
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It's Saturday afternoon and the kids are all connected to separate devices. So are the parents. Sounds familiar?
Social Sciences
Mar 8, 2024
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Gamers who chose to be good Samaritans while playing through a zombie apocalypse were more likely to be prosocial post-game, according to new QUT research.
Social Sciences
Feb 26, 2024
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Tore Olsson put his students in touch with American history through his popular and award-winning class "Red Dead America: Exploring America's Violent Past Through the Hit Video Games." Now this engagement has reached beyond ...
Education
Jan 10, 2024
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Flip through TikTok, Instagram or X (formerly Twitter) each day, and a barrage of grainy, chaotic videos paints a complicated picture of the Israel-Hamas war.
Social Sciences
Nov 20, 2023
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One of China's most-visited glaciers in the Tibetan region, the Dagu Glacier, is now covered with white sheets, also known as geotextiles, in an attempt to slow its melting. Scientists at Nanjing University are leading the ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 5, 2023
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Legal restrictions placed on the amount of time young people in China can play video games may be less effective than originally thought, a new study has revealed.
Social Sciences
Aug 10, 2023
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