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Grown-ups Use Twitter! Apple May Soon, Too

Pew's latest survey shows Twitter is growing up, getting used more, and appealing to more older users. It's also a mobile affair for everyone half the time. With rumors Apple's about to integrate it, this could all become more significant

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Does Quantum Mechanics Flout the Laws of Thermodynamics?

Quantum mechanics is the most successful description of nature known to humans, yet it has many bizarre implications for our understanding of the world. There are phenomena of superposition (objects being in two places at the same time), entanglement (correlations that exceed any classical correlations) and nonlocality (apparent ability for information to travel instantaneously across vast distances)

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The Fundamental Physical Limits of Computation

Editor's note (6/1/2011): We are making the text of this July 1985 article freely available for 30 days to coincide with the publication of a paper on entropy and quantum systems by Vlatko Vedral. He authored our June 2011 cover story and blogs about his latest work , which discusses the research featured in this 1985 article. A computation, whether it is performed by electronic machinery, on an abacus or in a biological system such as the brain, is a physical process

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Video: Dog sniffs out prostate cancer

It's a sniffer dog with a difference: a military Belgian Shepherd that has been trained to detect signs of prostate cancer in patients' urine. According to French scientists, the dog can do it far more accurately than any currently available scientific technique. Felipe Maya reports.

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Virus No Longer Thought to Be Cause of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

People who suffer from chronic fatigue syndrome were dealt another blow this week when it became clear that researchers still fail to understand the genesis of this disease. Perhaps most importantly, these patients are being advised to stop taking antiretroviral medications.

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