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By playing Borderlands Science, a mini-game within the looter-shooter video game Borderlands 3, 4.5 million gamers have helped trace the evolutionary relationships of more than a million different kinds of bacteria that live in the human gut.

Gamers Help Scientists Make Major Breakthrough in Understanding the Human Gut

Categories Health, Technology

New research defies long-held worries that lots of videogame playing could hamper young children’s pace of learning. A study of fifth graders published in the Journal of Media Psychology found no meaningful links between video game playing – even for hours – and the children’s cognitive ability. The news is likely to reassure parents and thrill game-loving kids.

Video game playing causes no harm to young children’s cognitive abilities

Categories Brain & Behavior, Technology

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