Play a game that teaches you all about food aid distribution. Each mission represents a part of the process of delivering food aid to an area in crisis. The final mission shows you how food aid can help people rebuild their lives in the years following a disaster.

Foldit is a revolutionary new computer game enabling you to contribute to important scientific research.

Science Shops are small entities that carry out scientific research in a wide range of disciplines – usually free of charge and – on behalf of citizens and local civil society.

Write an essay on the theme: "THE NATURE OF TIME."

"Your job is very simple! All you need to do is look out for the features that mark out spiral and elliptical galaxies. In fact, as you're a human and not a computer, most galaxies should be easy to classify since they're obviously spirals or obviously ellipticals."

The Dallas News invites readers to examine a new batch of documents relating to John F. Kennedy.

Join us in collecting important climate change data on the timing of leafing and flowering in your area through Project BudBurst! This national field campaign targets native tree and flower species across the country. With your help, we will be compiling valuable environmental and climate change information around the United States.

An experiment can be flown into space, recovered, and provided back to young experimenters for as little as US$2000.

NASA recently changed its slogan in an attempt to better articulate it's role for the American people. WIRED magazine wants to know what YOU think the new slogan should be.

The main purpose of WIKISKY is to consolidate astronomical, astrophysical and other information about different space objects and astrophysical facts.

Help classify galaxies via the Internet.

A database containing as much information as possible about what British people read, where and when they read it and what they thought of it will form an invaluable resource for researchers of book history, cultural studies, sociology and family history, to name but a few. You can participate by filling in a form.

The Buckminster Fuller Challenge seeks submissions of design science solutions within a broad range of human endeavor that exemplify the trimtab principle. Trimtabs demonstrate how small amounts of energy and resources precisely applied at the right time and place can produce maximum advantageous change. Doing more with less.

Help the US Patent Office find the information relevant to assessing the claims of pending patent applications.

FaceResearch.org allows you to participate in short online psychology experiments looking at the traits people find attractive in faces and voices.

The X-Prize Foundation is working on developing an automotive prize "To inspire a new generation of viable, super-efficient vehicles that help break our addiction to oil and stem the effects of climate change."

The Archon X PRIZE for Genomics challenges scientists and engineers to create better, cheaper and faster ways to sequence genomes. A $10 million prize
for the first team to successfully sequence 100 human genomes in 10 days.

CONE Sutro Forest allows players to earn points by taking live photos and classifying wild birds. CONE Sutro Forest (CONE-SF) combines a remotely controllable robotic pan-tilt-zoom video camera with live streaming video, image database, and point system.

The HiRISE camera, one of the instruments on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, has been sending back high-resolution images of Mars since late 2006. On this site, you can help us identify landforms in these images.

Take training to become a presenter on climate change.

Earthwatch supports scientific field research by offering volunteers the opportunity to join research teams around the world.

The Planetary Society is conducting a competition to design a mission to rendezvous with and "tag" a near-Earth asteroid.

"The OpenScience project is dedicated to writing and releasing free and Open Source scientific software. We are a group of scientists, mathematicians and engineers who want to encourage a collaborative environment in which science can be pursued by anyone who is inspired to discover something new about the natural world."

Companies are offering financial awards for solutions to their scientific challenges.

University specialists are demonstrating what meteorites look like on the ground and reaping the benefit when members of the public discover more.

A global network of small telescopes dedicated to photometry of cataclysmic variables.

The National Geographic Society, IBM, geneticist Spencer Wells, and the Waitt Family Foundation have launched the Genographic Project, a five-year effort to understand the human journey?where we came from and how we got to where we live today. This unprecedented effort will map humanity's genetic journey through the ages.

The Society for American Archeology has set up an information clearinghouse website for members of the public who want to know more about archaeology, as well as for archaeologists who want to know more about working with the public.

The Prize recognises significant contributions to environmental conservation. Submissions for the annual prize are assessed by a panel of eminent trustees representing science, industry and government with the award going to the project the Trustees consider displays the best combination of good science, economic realism and political acceptability.