SPACE - Home PCs Help Pinpoint Pulsars

It’s pretty rare to find a scientific study that acknowledges key contributions from individuals who go by names like “IG_the_cheetah” and “Revoluzzer.” But Ig and Rev were big helps in finding previously unknown pulsars in our own Milky Way galaxy—24 of them. The discovery is in the Astrophysical Journal. [Benjamin Knispel et al, Einstein@Home Discovery of 24 Pulsars in the Parkes Multi-beam Pulsar Survey]

http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=home-pcs-help