Uploaded August 2016 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago
Video games could be at the heart of the next scientific research revolution, as the Citizen Science project aims to co-opt the world's 3 billion weekly hours of gaming in the name of scientific discovery.
Forget shooting and racing - gaming has evolved to incorporate folding protein chains, cancer research and quantum computing. "We take scientific tasks and inject them seamlessley into major video games", says Attila Szantner, founder of Massively Multiplayer Online Science. Radical new projects - conducted from a gamer's bedroom - focus on Virtual Reality and the overall "gamification" of science's most laborious fields.
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N2K Episode 31: Ref. 6861
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Video games could be at the heart of the next scientific research revolution, as the Citizen Science project aims to co-opt the world's 3 billion weekly hours of gaming in the name of scientific discovery.
Forget shooting and racing - gaming has evolved to incorporate folding protein chains, cancer research and quantum computing. "We take scientific tasks and inject them seamlessley into major video games", says Attila Szantner, founder of Massively Multiplayer Online Science. Radical new projects - conducted from a gamer's bedroom - focus on Virtual Reality and the overall "gamification" of science's most laborious fields.
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N2K Episode 31: Ref. 6861
The news has changed. The public decides what’s important to them, by sharing, posting, uploading, blogging and tweeting. The best material not only rises to the surface but explodes across the internet, phones and other digital media.
In this brave new media-saturated world, it’s the funniest, the freshest and the most fascinating that wins attention. N2K is the weekly digest for the digital generation and the first show to reflect what the world is talking about right now.
N2K features the headlines, the stories and gets us talking, embracing popular culture as shared across the globe by your viewers. N2K is social and interactive, calling on viewers to tell it what they’re watching and what they can’t live without online.
