NSF is funding a $5 million, five-year award to UC San Diego and UC Berkeley to establish a Pacific Research Platform

With Apple's launch of new health tracking tools for the iPhone and medical researchers' forays into Facebook to recruit clinical trial volunteers, Web and mobile apps are increasingly seen as a new source for health data.

A new study by ScanSafe has found that workers spend nearly half of their online time at work surfing for gambling sites, chatting to friends on instant messengers or answering personal e-mail