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Scientists Turning to Folks With iPhones to Get Research

Citizen scientists are nothing new. In fact, they've been helping the Audubon Society to catalog birds since 1900, and have even been enlisted by NASA to study stardust collected in probes. But new technology like 3G data networks and advanced cell phone operating systems like the iPhone's OS X have scientists scrambling to put powerful, connected, mobile tools in the palms of amateur ...