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Scientists Need Your Help to Find Treatments for Coronavirus
Different teams of scientists need the public's help to donate idle computing power and solve puzzles to fight Covid-19.
DARPA Uses Preteen Gamers to Beta Test Tomorrow's Military Software
Inside the nondescript Pentagon-funded research lab developing games under the pretense of teaching elementary students STEM skills.
How Gamers Are Fighting AIDS (and Winning): Q+A
I haven't actually figured out how to play the puzzle game FoldIt yet, but since the announcement that players of the game cracked the elusive structure of one of enzymes key in the HIV virus--a giant step in AIDS research--the game's site has been...
We're On Some Kind of HIV Ass-Kicking Roll This Week
Later today we'll have an interview up with part of the research team responsible for this week's big announcement that gamers battling a puzzle game called Foldit, which lets players collaborate/compete in the predicting of structure of protein molecules