The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence project collects radio from space and then analyses it for anything we might want to listen to.
Seti At Home is a distributed computing project where you download a 'cell' of data and process it. This way, your unused computer cycles can go towards a greater good, instead of doing nothing.
2 pages link to SetiAtHome:
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