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Be the Eyes for Research Projects Computer technology hasn’t quite reached the level of the human brain and eye yet. The following project require the use of a human eye to spot or detect something that today’s computer software are not capable of achieving.
Stardust@Home Hunt for interstellar dust, picked up by the Stardust spacecraft during a dramatic encounter with a comet. Join thousands of other volunteers around the world searching for these particles using a 'Virtual Microscope'.	Time Taken: Approx 10 minutes – a small price to pay to find a star!
	Impact: Contributing knowledge to the scientific community about our Galaxy
	Cost: Nothing

Proofread a Page Are you good at reading? Can you spot spelling mistakes? If you can, then the following project is crying out for people like you.
Distributed Proofreaders This is a web-based method to proofread a Public Domain book to ease it's conversion into an e-book. By dividing the workload into individual pages, many volunteers work on a book at the same time. Proofread as many pages as you want, when you want.	Time Taken: 3 – 10 minutes per page. Speed readers need not apply!
	Impact: Preserves old books for future generations to read
	Cost: Nothing

Volunteer Your Spare Computing Power This has got to be the easiest one of all the volunteering opportunities on this website. Just download a piece of software to your pc and then let it use the spare processing power of your computer to work on problems that could potentially save lives. Once downloaded, there is usually nothing more to do on your part.
Distributed Computing Use the spare processing power of your pc to work on a small part of a larger problem. The results are combined with thousands of other computers around the world to solve challenges that a single super computer could not achieve in a reasonable time span. Just install some free software and that's it!	Time Taken: Initially 10 minutes to set it up. After that, zilch. You can watch telly as normal!
	Impact: Fight AIDS, search for ET, predict the earth’s climate and so many more
	Cost: Nothing