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You can do science in Borderlands 3 now to help out real-life medical researchIt’s all to help research into the microbes in your gut

It’s all to help research into the microbes in your gut

An actual scientist will explain far this better than I ever could, so here’s one (who you might recognise from The Big Bang Theory) talking about what Borderlands Science is all about:

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Watch on YouTube

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There’s an incentive to play this minigame, too. If you have a go at it and reach a target score for a level you’ll be rewarded with in-game currency to spend on unique new skins,heads, and boosters.

Borderlands Science isn’t the first time a game has been used to help out real-life research. A few years agoEve Online launched Project Discovery, an in-game image analysis minigame of examining and classifying pictures of cells.