3 Ways Your Phone Can Improve Science

Smartphones have revolutionized technology, and now more than ever, they are helping science take huge leaps forward.


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[kallistiX]

I'd science you...I'd science you so hard.
*Plays Goodbye Horses on my Smartphone*

[Jamal]

I watched this on my cell phone and was like "you could do that?"

[blazeharmon]

At 1:13 i think you put up the wrong caption.  you don't mention ELISA until later.
Unless i missed something.

[mdr]

One day science will make its way to the United States,

[furonwarrior]

I recommend using Garden Answers for plant identification and Merlin Bird Id for bird identification. ;)

[MyBubblez]

Can we buy that three cent lens!? Where is it sold!?

[mpilosov]

+DNews Can you please share a link to the DNA sequencing smartphone research?

[connorwgtn]

I picked up a Node+ recently and while I only have the weather sensor head the possibilities this sensor system offers are amazing. After watching Dnews episodes on CO2 in meeting rooms I'm interested in getting the Oxa CO2 sensor head to test my environment.

[timstring]

I use Astronomy Hub in my Lumia for my daily fix of APOD images plus I also love the Discovery News app.

[remingtonrojas]

Wait, you can get cellular level detail for 3 cents! I can totally take pics of sperm and my friends will be disturbed by the fact that on kik, the picture will say from camera and not gallery.

[melzymoomin]

That thing with the microscopes is so cool... Almost makes me want to go back to school haha we hardly ever got to use tools like that.

[pavanlahiru]

can you do a video on batteries. Like lithium ion batteries. How to use them how they work and the variations?

[axeonvonshadow]

I just got my first smartphone a few weeks ago, it is a galaxy core, what apps could I download if I want to measure sound waves, light waves and other waves?

[JJ-siqh]

I wish there was more distributed computing on smart phones, especially iOS. Waze is good for traffic data collection.

[nickphelan]

A drop of water on the lens of a smart phone works as a great magnifier.

[MrLolzman]

I use Samsung power sleep to help with protein sequences. :)

[NENE]

Skin tags what are they and why do we get them?

[ninjaong]

not all apps are available in my country, malaysia.. =(

[dannnyboy]

Love the knowledge but why didn't you guys spoke of project Ara it's Google modular phone that literally let's you change parts to add what you need so instead of add on big bulcky lens, you literally exchange it to the one you need

[xierxu]

Dnews. What happens to air that is released in space?I think it's pulled back to the nearest body with a strong gravitational pull.