The PS3 is a supercomputer

It's not often that buying a games console can give you a valid reason for claiming you're doing your bit for humanity. But since the launch of the Playstation 3, its new owners can do just that!
For the last seven years, researchers at Stanford University have been working on a research program whose goal is to understand the process of protein folding and how it may be analysed in relation to disease.
Protein folding is the method in which proteins arranged themselves when carrying out their important functions, and its through a malfunction of this process that many serious disea... (read more)

Author: Ian Ball