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The Young and the Scoreless
Toddlers step out into the world of consoles
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A Star-Trek-style medical scanner could be here in the near future
A team of Stanford University electrical engineers have taken large steps towards creating a portable scanning device to detect hidden objects, with possible applications in the medical field as a detector of tumors in the brain. The team says the device could be ready for practical use within the n
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A video handily explains all the wonderful things videogames do for your brain
It’s well-documented at this point that playing videogames has an effect on your brain. It’s just what effect, exactly, that scientists haven’t quite figured out. Something to do with decision-making and sensory awareness, right? But it’s a step toward appreciating games for what they are—valuable i
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I Am Dolphin is a videogame about exactly what it sounds like
No, really, it is.
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Spanish scientists make first steps toward actual telepathy
Has nobody watched Scanners?
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Heartwarming 50s television spot explains why games are good for you
The evidence is in.
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Space Travel (or, Falling Down)
How do we actually remember Los Santos?
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Hard empirical evidence that games are better than music
Well, kinda. A new study by researchers at the University of Barcelona shows that some people are incapable of having emotional responses to music. But those very same people who don’t get all misty-eyed when they hear “Desperado” still found games stimulating. For the study, researchers gathered 30
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This asteroid-zapping game might cure cancer
The free mobile game Play to Cure: Genes in Space was created at a madcap game jam hosted by Cancer Research UK to do just that: research cancer. You can get it for Android here and iPhone there and start blasting your way towards a cure. But listen how it works first. The human genome is teeny tiny
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Solve puzzles, help DARPA, and hopefully they’ll keep the scary robots caged
You can patch DARPA’s buggy software by playing these brainy games
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EyeWire and the Brave New World of crowd-sourced neuroscience games
The retina of the eye is wired with a superhighway of fiber, and the crowd-sourced research project dedicated to charting it is called EyeWire. It was codeveloped at MIT and Max Planck Institute for Medical Research under the tutelage of Dr. Sebastian Seung, a professor of neuroscience who specializ
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Scientists figure out the optimal speed for living life
It’s one of the most tired clichés in modern life – that thanks in large part to the always-on, always-connected paradigm enabled by modern technology, American lives are busy, crazy, and unhealthy. That may well be true. But it has less to do with technology than we might think – and more interesti