Thousands of computers, smartphones and tablets come together to create one powerful source of insight. World Community Grid enables scientists to up their game by breaking an overwhelming research problem into millions of tiny tasks. Each task is sent off separately and tackled by a volunteer's device. As a volunteer, your device downloads a small research assignment from World Community Grid when it has spare capacity to do more work – like when you're checking your email, reading a document or taking a break. Your device feeds the answers back to World Community Grid, which passes them on to researchers. The researchers analyze the data for patterns, draw insights and share their findings with the scientific community. World Community Grid is the largest volunteer computing initiative devoted to humanitarian science, rivaling the power of the world's largest supercomputers. By harnessing power from so many devices around the world, World Community Grid accelerates research that would otherwise have taken years – decades, even – into months. At a time when research funding has become scarce, this means scientists are able to tackle projects they might once never have dreamed of attempting.