Einstein@Home makes discovery
An international astronomy project, which uses the computing power of 250,000 home computers, has made its first discovery. The Einstein@Home project has found a rare type of pulsar � a dense star that emits pulses of radiation. The World’s science reporter Rhitu Chatterjee has the story.
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