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Android-based smartphone users can now reach for the stars and discover new radio pulsars.
Today, for the first time, owners of Android-based smartphones and tablets can "donate" the surplus computing power of their devices to science; they can reach for the stars and discover new radio pulsars with Einstein@Home on their Android devices.
Credit: Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics/B. Knispel (photo), NASA (pulsar illustration)
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