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About 30 science projects use BOINC. They investigate diseases, study climate change, discover pulsars, and do many other types of scientific research.
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[Einstein@home] Results from Einstein@Home supernova remnant search published

The results of a new Einstein@Home search in public LIGO data have been published in The Astrophysical Journal: “Deep Einstein@Home search for Continuous Gravitational Waves from the Central Compact Objects in the Supernova Remnants Vela Jr. and G347.3-0.5 using LIGO public data”. The paper is also available on the arXiv preprint server.

View article · Wed, 11 Dec 2024 07:58:55 +0000

[YAFU] Aliquot sequence 3100830 has terminated!!!

Aliquot sequence 3100830 has terminated!!!

View article · Sun, 8 Dec 2024 06:19:58 +0000

[YAFU] Aliquot sequence 3065640 has terminated!!!

Aliquot sequence 3065640 has terminated!!!

View article · Sun, 1 Dec 2024 21:40:43 +0000

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Rosetta@home leader wins Nobel Prize
Dr. David Baker of the University of Washington, creator of Rosetta@home, has won the 2024 Nobel prize in Chemistry. Congratulations!
9 Oct 2024, 23:23:34 UTC · Discuss

Should BOINC boycott Russian projects?
This has been suggested. We're not going to do it, but the idea merits thought and discussion.
10 Sep 2024, 2:18:10 UTC · Discuss

Windows malware reported
We have received several reports of malware that installs and runs the 8.0.2 BOINC client on Windows computers. We are investigating this; we currently don't know how the malware works or how to defeat it. We'll report whatever we learn here.

This is not a vulnerability in BOINC; rather, it's malware that illegally installs BOINC.
26 Jun 2024, 23:01:38 UTC · Discuss

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