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Do Some Citizen Science

Posted by timothy on from the distributed dept.

Idmat writes "Citizen Science Projects points to interesting projects by "real people, doing real science." Find out how to do volunteer scientific research, and read about current efforts to gather and report data on everything from water quality to variable stars to frog populations."

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  1. Re:What about... by DaoudaW · · Score: 4, Informative

    the distributed.net projects? SETI at home? Protein folding?

    All these projects do is let real scientists use your computer. You aren't really involved. For real fun, check out some amateur scientist websites. And no you don't need an advanced degree to understand it.