Gamers make a breakthrough - very interesting

[Bethers]

This is so kewl. Anyway to get the answers to some of these dangerous diseases and scientific puzzles is great.

http://games.yahoo.com/blogs/plugged-in ... 20724.html

[Anniepoo]

There's getting to be a number of these 'games with a purpose'
Jane McGonigal is a leader in this area- this is her game:
http://worldwithoutoil.org/

Zooniverse is a collection of science projects where scientists ask the public's help in analyzing data.
They're all fun, and all very serious, important scientific projects

http://www.zooniverse.org/

There's also a number of projects that require vast amounts of computing power. Some of these projects have asked people to run a program on their computer that does a tiny fraction of the total work in the background when their computer is idle.

You can help search for extraterrestrial life here

http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/

and you can help with many other great art and science projects through BOINC

http://boinc.berkeley.edu/