Borderlands 3 adds real-world scientific research mini-game

Borderlands 3 citizen science game Borderlands Science. — AFP Relaxnews

Borderlands Science is the name of a virtual arcade game inside Borderlands 3 that helps scientists discover just what goes on inside the human gut.

Following a partnership with EVE Online in 2017, Swiss research group Massively Multiplayer Online Science has partnered with video game Borderlands 3 and, by extension, its players, to improve microbial research and help cure diseases.