Inside high-energy proton collisions, quarks and gluons briefly form a dense, boiling state before cooling into ordinary ...

By Partha Sinha Entropy fascinates because it announces itself. It spreads, decays and disperses. It makes noise. Like Kali, ...

In physics, “universality” refers to properties of systems that are independent of their details. Establishing the universality of quantum dynamics is one of the key interests of theoretical ...

I recently led a webinar on the laws of thermodynamics, which got me thinking: A business is very much a closed system, such as a universe. Therefore, if entropy is always increasing in a closed ...

The unique properties of high-entropy alloys make them ideal for hydrogen storage, offering advantages in stability and performance over traditional materials.

A team of physicists has created a cloud of ultracold atoms that stubbornly resists the most basic rule of everyday ...

Pioneers of evolutionary psychology John Tooby, Leda Cosmides, and H. Clark Barrett argue that “the Second Law of Thermodynamics is the First Law of Psychology” in a 2003 paper of that very name. The ...