Folding@Home is still being recognized for the good work it has done in pursuance of humanity's greater good. It recently bagged Japan's prestigious G-Mark award. See what it's all about after the jump.

Today, people have a general knowledge on the effects of taking in recreational drugs. Well, in the days when society had no clue, experiments were carried out by curious scientists. We encountered the list of the top five recreational drugs experiment. Check out the list in the full article.

Anger might not be all that bad. According to psychologists from Boston College and Standford University, anger is an emotion preferred to be used by people whenever they would undertake any activity that requires confrontation. More details can be found in the full article.

Sometimes you have to wonder if you crossed the line to overkill:
researchers at Stanford are developing a camera with 12,616 lenses. The result? A "super-3D" photo. More in the full article.

Thanks to a tip from reader yoti93, we're letting the PlayStation 3 owners know that the Stanford University's Folding@Home service has been updated to version 1.31.

Those interested in reading this update improvements will want to visit the full article. All you have to do is click the "read more" link below.

If you're male and find it a wee bit difficult to put down the controller when you're playing a video game, then the findings of a Stanford study might be able provide you with a pretty interesting reason behind it.

In a study done by Allan Reiss and his colleagues, they were able to find out that video games have a greater effect on the reward region of the brain of men than in women. Details of their study in the full article.

Here's some big news for the guys who've signed up for Standford's  and Sony's Folding@Home project. The company is sending word that registered PS3 units for this shared computing project have exceeded the one million mark.

Details regarding this matter are in the full article.

Albert Einstein's principle of equivalence states that objects of different mass still fall at the same speed when influenced by gravity. After being accepted for years, the physics community are now planning to subject this very principle to test.

The efforts are being led by Standford University and actual testing will begin in a couple of months. How exactly are they going to do it? Know the full details after the jump!

Students from all over the United States flocked to an abandoned Air Force base outside Los Angeles to compete in a race staged by the U.S. Defense Department. The goal is simple: Finish the race in six hours to win the US$ 2 million cash prize. With names like Stanford University, Cornell University, MIT, and other topnotch institutions in the running, who do you think took home the money and the bragging rights? Let's find out in the full story.

Read what went down in the robot car race after the jump!

Thanks to the ginormous help afforded by Sony PlayStation 3, Stanford University's Folding@home project was eventually recognized by the Guinness World Records as the World's Most Powerful Distributed Computing network. This big achievement is thanks to the overwhelming participation of PS3 owners all around the world (QJ included).

Folding@home (also known as F@h) managed to reach the one petaflop mark on September 16 last month, while continued widespread participation of PS3 users enabled the PS3 to surpass one petaflop on September 23, not counting the input from other computers and devices.

To those who still aren't familiar about the Folding@home project, it is an application that lets PS3s and PCs participate in a distributed computing project that simulates the process of protein folding. Since the simulation of the entire process is too slow and tasking for a single computer to handle, Dr. Vijay Pande and the merry band of researchers from Stanford Project managed to create a single computing network dedicated for the sole purpose of simulating the protein folding process.

The success of the project was also thanks to the user-friendly F@h application: just let the PC or PS3 run the application while not playing any games, and just leaving the machine on when not in use. PS3 users only needed to contribute electricity to help improve mankind's well-being, so to speak.

This is not the only instance wherein the PS3 helps out the field of science. A cluster of eight PS3 units are currently working as a supercomputer replacement for Dr. Gaurav Khanna as he conducts his space research. Will the mighty PS3 and its powerful Cell processor find more ways in benefiting humanity? We'll see soon enough.

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