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Chemistry: the video game
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©2006 Nature Publishing Group
by Emma Marris
You are deep underground in a lab
that once housed some of the finest minds in chemistry. But robots
directed by a crackbrained artificial intelligence have taken it over
and plan to use its equipment to destroy the world! After freezing an
evil robot with your handy wrist-mounted hot-and-cold gun, you reach
the Haber-Bosch room. And now you must correctly synthesize ammonia or
die.
"Your
students are playing video games," Gabriela Weaver told a group of
chemistry teachers at the American Chemical Society meeting in Atlanta,
Georgia, on 29 March. "They are playing them more and more hours a day.
They are probably playing them in your class." Read more .....
http://www.nature.com/news/2006/060327/full/060327-17.html