Call it "citizen neuroscience," games like the new Mozak -- akin to a very challenging connect-the-dots as you trace a neuron -- let you contribute to brain science as you play.

Both games are fun but suffer from confusing instructions. Evolve is too complicated for its target age group of 9 years and older. (Linkage is billed as being for 10 years and up.) ...

Addictive online games make citizen science a hit Published: August 18, 2014 9:52am EDT. Ladan Cockshut, Durham University. Author. Ladan Cockshut ...

Borderlands 3 publisher 2K and developer Gearbox Software is elevating the series’ latest game to lofty new ideals with a new in-game experience called Borderlands Science, a crowdsourced ...

However, unlike other citizen science games, Borderlands Science exists inside the already existing popular video game franchise, Borderlands. Attila Szantner, Waldispuhl’s research partner and the ...

In Mondo Nano: Fun and Games in the World of Digital Matter (Duke University Press, $28.95 paperback, $23.93 Kindle, $99.93 cloth, 424 pages), Milburn, who holds the Gary Snyder Chair in Science and ...

The new game mode, Borderlands Science, is a collaboration between the developer and scientific institutions like McGill University, Massively Multiplayer Online Science (MMOS), and the Microsetta ...