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The Royal Society has suggested ways the government can overhaul information and communications technology (ICT) teaching in schools, following promises from Education Secretary Michael Gove to scrap the way the subject is currently taught. The body, which oversees UK sciences, recommends dividing computing into distinct subjects such as computer science and digital literacy and it said the government [...]

An online game called Foldit has helped determine the structure of an enzyme that could pave the way for anti-Aids drugs. The game allows players to create new shapes of proteins by randomly folding digital molecules on their computer screens. In the journal Nature Structural and Molecular Biology, scientists write that they have been puzzled by the protein’s structure for over a decade but it [...]

At the MacTaggart Lecture at the Edinburgh International Television Festival, Google chairman Eric Schmidt has said education in Britain is holding back the country’s chances of success in the digital media economy and that the UK needed to reignite children’s passion for science, engineering and maths. Dr Schmidt told the audience of broadcasters and producers that Britain had invented [...]

In Next Gen, a government-commissioned report published in February, Ian Livingstone and Alex Hope – key players in the computer games and film industry – found that a growing number of teachers were using video games and animation technologies to support learning in the classroom; in fact 93% of maths teachers in their survey believed that “using computer games in the classroom can [...]