Recently, a team of researchers made headlines for a stunning announcement: a theoretical breakthrough that expanded our understanding of the first law of thermodynamics. But to understand that result ...

THE first of the above volumes contains a series of ten lectures delivered by Prof. Nernst at the Yale University in 1906 under the Silliman Foundation. After two introductory chapters, a résumé is ...

Scientists have used computer models to expand on a famous thought experiment in physics. Maxwell’s Demon is an idea that seems to violate the second law of thermodynamics, and scientists have argued ...

In the strange, often unintuitive world of quantum physics, one mystery has stood out for decades: Can quantum entanglement be manipulated in a reversible way, like energy in a perfect heat engine?

Just over 200 years after French engineer and physicist Sadi Carnot formulated the second law of thermodynamics, an international team of researchers has unveiled an analogous law for the quantum ...

Significant and immediate worldwide carbon dioxide emissions reductions are necessary to avoid the worst effects of global climate change, scientists say. However, a claim has been circulating online ...