Read about this on Penny Arcade the other day. I haven't tried the game yet, but I really love the idea. Its a protien folding "puzzle" game. Its sort of an experiment to see if human logic and decision making is more effiecent than computers in protien folding. If it proves to be, they want to use the data they collect from this to "teach" computer programs to fold more efficiently, thus bringing about knowledge and cures more rapidly.

Read about it here:

http://fold.it/portal/info/science

They've made it a competetive game so that there is a reason to push to get as much done as you can.

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Yeah.. they've been getting a lot of attention... a post on the front page of PA can do that. Try it again after a few min.

You can also try going to the main page:

http://fold.it