You know how your smartphone and computer just do nothing when you’re not using them? You can now put those slackers to work in a noble cause: helping cure the Ebola virus. IBM’s World Community Grid has teamed up with scientists from the Scripps Research Institute with the “Outsmart Ebola Together” project to tackle the deadly plague. The laboratory has been studying the virus for the last decade, and has mapped potential weak points in Ebola proteins. But the process of narrowing down promising drugs is computationally intensive, which is where you and your device come in.
