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Google wants you to get scientific with a brand new app say hello to science journal Google calls it a digital science notebook and the app is a part of the company's making science initiative here's how it works science journal uses your phone's sensors like it's microphone accelerometer and light sensor to catalog all kinds of data you can see that data plotted on a graph over time or you can switch to raw numbers so if you decided to start throwing your phone because you want to know how fast you can throw it you could have the accelerometer data logged automatically as the great Adam Savage once said the difference between screwing around and science is writing it down but it doesn't just stop at the phone Google teamed up with the Exploratorium in San Francisco to develop kits that work with science journal the kits include microcontrollers and craft supplies to conduct experiments like creating a magnetic field minesweeper game the idea behind the app and the kits is to get people to think like scientists with a hands-on approach because science is more than just a bunch of facts in a book the science journal app is available right now in the Google Play Store sorry iphone users it's android only right now that's it for this tech news update I Maya's Akhtar and you can stay on top of the biggest stories at cnet com / update