Did you know your iPhone and Android can actually help other causes besides your own? With the right apps and tools, you can actually help track bird populations, monitor local water quality and more:
Scientists have started to use the abilities and prevalence of smartphones to their advantage, creating apps specifically for their studies and crowdsourcing observation and data collection. When almost everyone has an Internet connection, a camera, and a GPS unit right in their phone, almost anyone can gather, organize, and submit data to help move a study along.
Learn about how you can help advance science at the link.