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Climatepredition.net

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Home: Oxford University

Area: Earth sciences

Goal: To investigate the approximations that have to be made in state-of-the-art climate models. By running the model thousands of times we hope to find out how the model responds to slight tweaks to these approximations - slight enough to not make the approximations any less realistic. This will allow us to improve our understanding of how sensitive our models are to small changes and also to things like changes in carbon dioxide and the sulphur cycle. This will allow us to explore how climate may change in the next century under a wide range of different scenarios.

Einstein@Home

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Home: Univ. of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, Albert Einstein Institute

Area: Astrophysics

Goal: Search for spinning neutron stars (also called pulsars) using data from the LIGO and GEO gravitational wave detectors. Einstein@Home is a World Year of Physics 2005 project supported by APS and by a number of international organizations.

LHC@Home

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Home: CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Area: Physics

Goal: The LHC is a particle accelerator which is being built at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, the world's largest particle physics laboratory. When it switches on in 2007, it will be the most powerful instrument ever built to investigate on particles proprieties. LHC@home simulates particles traveling around the LHC to study the stability of their orbits.

QMC@Home

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Home: University of Muenster

Area: Chemistry

Goal: Study the structure and reactivity of molecules using Quantum Chemistry.

SETI@Home

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Home: U.C. Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory

Area: Astrophysics, astrobiology

Goal: SETI is a scientific area whose goal is to detect intelligent life outside Earth. One approach, known as radio SETI, uses radio telescopes to listen for narrow-bandwidth radio signals from space. Such signals are not known to occur naturally, so a detection would provide evidence of extraterrestrial technology.