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Tag: video games

Image of delighted woman playing video game on mobile phone while sitting on sofa at home Citizen Science SciStarter Blog Technology 

How Video Games Are Making Research Fun

August 18, 2022August 17, 2022 Science Connectedcitizen science projects, gamification, video games

Gamification and citizen science meet when research projects create video games to make data collection and analysis fun.

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Citizen Science Games Mix Design with Discovery

May 14, 2021October 11, 2021 Science Connectedvideo games

Exclusive interview with Claire Baert about citizen science games. Claire has been working in the game industry for 10 years.

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Action Video Games Boost Sensorimotor Skills

May 13, 2021March 29, 2022 Science Connectedbrain, video games

People who play action video games learn new sensorimotor skills more quickly than non-gamers do, according to a study from the University of Toronto.

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Ultrasound is focused to create a hologram in the shape of a virtual sphere (Bristol Interaction and Graphics group, University of Bristol, © 2014) Computer Science New Technologies 

Holograms You Can Touch and Feel

May 6, 2021May 6, 2021 Science Connectedvideo games

Holograms that you can touch are being developed by scientists at the University of Bristol. This video shows the first tangible holograms in action.

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Science Games Advance Genetic Research

February 5, 2021August 20, 2021 Science Connectedcomputers, games, gamification, gaming, video games

By playing citizen science games like Phylo, Colony B and Borderlands Science, you can join scientific research projects in your free time.

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Video Games Hone Visual Attention Skills

June 8, 2020March 29, 2022 Science Connectedbrain, video games

Video games may help players practice how much visual information their brains can process at once, according to a new study.

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Spotlight: Environment

A wheat field in the Mpika District, Muchinga Province, Zambia, showing symptoms of wheat blast during the outbreak of March 2018. Credit: Batiseba Tembo, Zambia Agriculture Research Institute; license CC by 4.0 Biology Botany Ecology Environment 

Genomics Takes On Crop Disease

June 6, 2023June 6, 2023 Science Connectedagriculture, crops, ecology, environment, genome, pathogens, plants
Genomics opens the way for scientists to track where and which plants are affected most by rapidly spreading pathogens.
Earth Day 2020 Environment 

Earth Day: Get Informed, Get Involved

April 21, 2023April 21, 2023 Science Connectedenvironmental health
Earth Day is celebrated every year on April 22. Learn more and find out how to get involved in an Earth...
A stream filling a glass of water. Water quality may be headed for a rise as scientists work to develop new technology that uses bacteria to detect harmful heavy metals in water.

Water Quality Monitoring by Bacterial Biosensors

March 20, 2023March 14, 2023 Science Connectedbacteria, heavy metals, water contamination, water pollution, water testing
People putting plastic bottles in recycling bin.

Bacteria Has Natural Capacity to Recycle Plastics

March 10, 2023March 9, 2023 Science Connectedbacteria, plastic pollution, recycling
Researchers have developed a recycling system that can transform plastic waste and greenhouse gases into sustainable fuels and other valuable products–using just the energy from the sun. Image credit: University of Cambridge

Sunlight Powers Recycling of Carbon Dioxide and Plastic

February 15, 2023February 14, 2023 Science Connectedbiofuel, carbon dioxide, plastic pollution, recycling, solar power
Brown algae are particularly widespread on rocky shores in temperate and cold latitudes and there absorb large amounts of carbon dioxide from the air worldwide. Credit: Hagen Buck-Wiese/Max Planck Institute For Marine Microbiology

How Brown Algae Mucus Combats Carbon Dioxide

February 10, 2023February 14, 2023 Science Connectedalgae, carbon dioxide, carbon fixing, climate change, seawater
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