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Stargazing viewer in planet coup

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 00:00:00 MST

The public push initiated on BBC Two's Stargazing Live series to find planets beyond our Solar System has had an immediate result.

Volunteers wanted for planet hunt

Sun, 15 Jan 2012 00:00:00 MST

an overview of the Planet Hunters project

Charity Engine: The Ethical Supercomputer That Can Win You $10,000

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 00:00:00 MST

The company sells your donated processing power to organizations for cheap. In exchange for your generosity, you can win yourself a nice bundle of cash.

Berkeley's BOINC Reaches 2B Results Milestone for SETI@Home

Mon, 09 Jan 2012 00:00:00 MST

the BOINC computing client for SETI@home has contributed its 2 billionth result to the project

Charity Engine: The Even Cheaper Cloud Supercomputer?

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 00:00:00 MST

a short overview of the new Charity Engine project

World Community Grid, your good deed for the day

Sun, 25 Dec 2011 00:00:00 MST

an overview of World Community Grid and how to participate in it

Spare some idle CPU cycles for charity this season

Fri, 23 Dec 2011 00:00:00 MST

a short overview of the new Charity Engine project

This geek uses his crazy Lego computer to help cure cancer, treat malaria and more

Sun, 11 Dec 2011 00:00:00 MST

Cancer Research 'to double size of datacentre'

Fri, 09 Dec 2011 00:00:00 MST

UK charity Cancer Research, which receives computing help from World Community Grid has doubled its data center size to 200 square meters and grown its total number of processing cores from 500 to 13,000

Video game players advancing genetic research

Tue, 06 Dec 2011 00:00:00 MST

an update on the Phylo project

Scripps Research and IBM Launch Crowdsourcing Project to Find Cure for Malaria

Tue, 06 Dec 2011 00:00:00 MST

an overview of the new GO Fight Against Malaria project

Protein-Folding Modeling For New Therapeutic Approaches

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 00:00:00 MST

Folding@home has developed the new Copernicus framework to utilize supercomputers efficiently for protein folding simulations

Spare a little computing power to fight malaria

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 00:00:00 MST

an overview of the new GO Fight Against Malaria project

theSkyNet comes alive

Sat, 19 Nov 2011 00:00:00 MST

SKA-related 'citizen science' project seeks participants

New Stanford software takes Folding@home's biological research to supercomputers

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 00:00:00 MST

Crowdsourcing Scientific Progress: How Crowdflower's Hordes Help Harvard Researchers Study TB

Wed, 26 Oct 2011 00:00:00 MDT

Harvard researchers were able to use hundreds of nontechnical workers through the Crowdflower crowd-sourcing site to examine thousands of images of Tuberculosis (TB) cells to study the effectiveness of various treatments for only pennies per image and to reduce the research time to a few weeks

Near-Earth Asteroid Discovered via Crowdsourcing

Wed, 12 Oct 2011 00:00:00 MDT

Accelerate physics with your own computer

Wed, 12 Oct 2011 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of the new LHC@home 2.0 project

Millions of Molecules Screened by Volunteers for the Clean Energy Project: You Can Help Too!

Wed, 05 Oct 2011 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of The Clean Energy Project

Columbian scientists tap global computer network in search of leishmaniasis drugs

Tue, 04 Oct 2011 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of World Community Grid's new Drug Search for Leishmaniasis project

Put computer downtime to good use

Sat, 01 Oct 2011 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of distributed computing projects

Scientists use global computer network to find leishmaniasis drugs

Fri, 30 Sep 2011 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of the new Drug Search for Leishmaniasis project

Puzzle Gamers Solve Scientific Mystery that Could Help Cure AIDS

Mon, 19 Sep 2011 00:00:00 MDT

Players of an online game have helped model the structure of an enzyme which has stumped scientists for over a decade

Online gamers crack AIDS enzyme puzzle

Mon, 19 Sep 2011 00:00:00 MDT

Gamers succeed where scientists fail

Sun, 18 Sep 2011 00:00:00 MDT

a detailed overview of Foldit players' recent discovery of the correct structure of an enzyme, related to AIDS, which scientists have not been able to understand for over a decade

Join In The Search For New Organic Solar Cell Material

Wed, 14 Sep 2011 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of The Clean Energy Project

IBM and University of Antioquia Cooperate to Seek Drug for Leishmaniasis Treatment

Tue, 13 Sep 2011 00:00:00 MDT

To use IBM's World Community Grid for collapsing 100 years of research into just two; over two-million Leishmaniasis sufferers worldwide

Spare CPU cycles to be used to further radio astronomy

Tue, 13 Sep 2011 00:00:00 MDT

TheSkyNet project will use the idle time of thousands of PCs to create grid computing power to process massive radio astronomy data sets

Millions of molecules screened in search for the ideal organic solar cell material

Mon, 12 Sep 2011 00:00:00 MDT

a detailed overview of The Clean Energy Project

Passive Collaboration: Add Your Processing Power to the Crowd

Wed, 24 Aug 2011 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of distributed computing projects

You can be a Citizen Scientist!

Mon, 22 Aug 2011 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of distributed human and distributed computing projects

Searching for cheap solar cells in computer models

Thu, 18 Aug 2011 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of The Clean Energy Project

Virtual hunt for solar technology yields initial results

Tue, 16 Aug 2011 00:00:00 MDT

Theoretical screening method produces first sample molecule as researchers analyse 3.5 million candidates for solar cells

Crowdsourcing Ancient Egyptian Scrolls

Tue, 26 Jul 2011 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of the new Zooniverse project: Ancient Life

Lego folding farm fights cancer, looks good doing it

Mon, 18 Jul 2011 00:00:00 MDT

a computer with a case made of Legos is processing work units for World Community Grid

Astronomy Without A Telescope - Gravitational Waves

Sat, 16 Jul 2011 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of gravitational wave astronomy and Einstein@Home

Early quake alerts: Simulation modeling could enhance earthquake detection, warnings

Fri, 15 Jul 2011 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of Quake Catcher Network

Tapping Social Media's Potential to Muster a Vast Green Army

Wed, 13 Jul 2011 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of the citizen science phenomenon and several distributed human projects

'Citizen-seismologists' sought to host tiny earthquake sensors on their computers

Thu, 07 Jul 2011 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of Quake Catcher Network

A supercomputer made of unused PCs

Fri, 24 Jun 2011 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of distributed computing projects

Snap a Photo and Help Measure Earth�s Albedo

Wed, 15 Jun 2011 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of a one-day distributed human project to measure Earth's albedo on the Summer solstice

US astronomers launch search for alien life on 86 planets

Sat, 14 May 2011 00:00:00 MDT

SETI@home participants will eventually be able to process data being collected in a new SETI search at the Green Bank telescope in West Virginia

Researchers Ask For Help From Your Home Computers

Thu, 05 May 2011 00:00:00 MDT

an interview with David Anderson, founder of the BOINC distributed computing platform

A CERN for climate change

Wed, 27 Apr 2011 00:00:00 MDT

a global computing grid is needed to better understand climate change

Bumps in the night

Wed, 27 Apr 2011 00:00:00 MDT

a short overview of the Quake Catcher Network project

Play indie games, help Portal 2 release early

Fri, 15 Apr 2011 00:00:00 MDT

spoof distributed computing project site GLaDOS@Home encouraged "participants" to play select independently-developed games to get Portal 2 released sooner. Almost 64,000 people participated.

Meteorologists should explain, not just predict

Tue, 12 Apr 2011 00:00:00 MDT

public distributed computing weather research projects like climateprediction.net can help explain weather, not just predict it

Volunteer Computing for Earthquake Detection

Tue, 29 Mar 2011 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of the Quake Catcher Network project

Modern Magellans: New NSF Grant at Rensselaer Uses the Power of the Masses to Map Dark Matter in the Galaxy

Tue, 15 Mar 2011 00:00:00 MDT

MilkyWay@home will predict where dark matter (which is unobservable with current telescopes) exists in our galaxy

Einstein@Home Taps Donated PC Graphics Processors to Uncover a Second Pulsar

Tue, 01 Mar 2011 00:00:00 MST

Watson Sparks Interest in Humanitarian Computing

Thu, 24 Feb 2011 00:00:00 MST

IBM's World Community Grid, a virtual supercomputer for humanitarian challenges, is benefiting from Watson's success on TV's Jeopardy. One day after the Jeopardy tournament, donations of unused PC time jumped 700 percent. IBM's World Community Grid tackles problems like water purification, cancer research, and HIV/AIDS treatments.

CMU's CrowdForge taps the collective power of millions

Wed, 23 Feb 2011 00:00:00 MST

an overview of the Crowdforge project crowdsourcing framework

In Watson's Wake, IBM World Community Grid Registration Skyrockets 700%

Fri, 18 Feb 2011 00:00:00 MST

seeing IBM's Watson computer win on the Jeopardy game show prompted a lot of people to become participants in World Community Grid

Distributed Computing Project: Climate Change Is Responsible For All The Flooding

Fri, 18 Feb 2011 00:00:00 MST

Distributed computing project blames floods on climate change

Thu, 17 Feb 2011 00:00:00 MST

results from climateprediction.net tie extreme flooding in 2000 to global warming

Developing Community Comes Together to Break Motorola�s Locked Bootloaders

Mon, 24 Jan 2011 00:00:00 MST

software developers are creating a BOINC-based project to crack Motorola's mobile device bootloader lock; unlocking the bootloader allows device users to flash the device's read-only memory and change the software features on the device

Doing Real-World Science, But Skipping The Ph.D.

Fri, 07 Jan 2011 00:00:00 MST

an overview of distributed human, or "citizen science," projects

Managing Scientific Inquiry in a Laboratory the Size of the Web

Fri, 17 Dec 2010 00:00:00 MST

an overview of Internet-based "Citizen Science" projects

Phylo Flash game helps trace genetic disease

Wed, 01 Dec 2010 00:00:00 MST

an overview of the new Phylo project

Help Scientists Hunt for Exploding Stars

Wed, 17 Nov 2010 00:00:00 MST

an overview of the Galaxy Zoo Supernovae project

Happy 6th Birthday, World Community Grid!

Tue, 16 Nov 2010 00:00:00 MST

Galaxy Zoo Searches for Supernovae

Thu, 11 Nov 2010 00:00:00 MST

an overview of the Galaxy Zoo Supernovae project

Maximum Interview: the Science Behind Folding@Home

Wed, 03 Nov 2010 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of the Folding@home project

Galaxy Zoo shows how well crowdsourced citizen science works

Tue, 26 Oct 2010 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of the Galaxy Zoo project and other distributed human projects

Sony Assists Researchers Worldwide With Humanitarian Research Projects

Fri, 22 Oct 2010 00:00:00 MDT

Sony is including the World Community Grid computing client on all of its VAIO laptops

Einstein at home bags a pulsar

Wed, 06 Oct 2010 00:00:00 MDT

Einstein@Home discovered a rare pulsar in data in which it is searching for evidence of gravity waves

8 Cool Science Projects That Can Run Right on Your Home Computer

Mon, 20 Sep 2010 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of several distributed computing projects

Virtual thinkers solving real world problems

Wed, 08 Sep 2010 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of the first Citizen Cyberscience Summit

MapRejuice Is SETI@Home on Steroids

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of the MapRejuice distributed computing client for web browsers

Home Computers Dredge Up Weird Pulsar

Tue, 17 Aug 2010 00:00:00 MDT

Einstein@Home discovered an odd pulsar