There are many ways you can do genuine scientific research at home from your own computer. 

Click on the following links and see if any of them sound fun for you. 

http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/

http://www.planethunters.org/

http://www.galaxyzoo.org/

http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/

http://orbit.psi.edu/

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