Your phone probably has a good deal of processing power and when you're not awake, its idle state may be put to good use.
Read about the power sleep app here: Quartz on Now your phone can fight cancer!
It only applies to Android phones (not the iOS) and only works when your phone is plugged in and on WiFi. (So there's apparently nothing to worry about extra data transfer costs.) What you're doing with this app is to "donate" your phone's processing power to research programs while it's idle. Think of it as one part of a million processors that is working for a super computer.
Not a bad idea on the part of the researchers. I might be tempted to assist if android phones didn't require so much battery power during the day.
If you're interested, here's a link to the download site: Power Sleep App
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