In this video, we explore the relationship between life and entropy, discussing how low entropy life can exist amidst ...

Paul M. Sutter is an astrophysicist at The Ohio State University, host of Ask a Spaceman and Space Radio, and author of "Your Place in the Universe" (2018). Sutter contributed this article to ...

No matter how hard we try to get our lives together, things seem to get more complicated. Problems emerge in our relationships and family life, finances, work, health and so on, that seem impossible ...

Scientists are scouring the universe for evidence of extraterrestrial life, but have you ever wondered how life began on Earth? Let physicist David Kaplan explain in the latest installment of Quanta’s ...

Entropy is something very peculiar. Let's remember that all physical quantities are conserved: In any closed system, energy is conserved, matter is conserved, momentum is conserved. That means that ...

A college Philosophy professor wanted to teach his students the value of entropy. Entropy is a key part of the second law of thermodynamics. It is a measure of a system’s randomness, disorder, or ...

As I reflect on this past year, entropy has been a part of my life. Entropy is a gradual decline into disorder. Something that is in order slowly decays into chaos. Sometimes, homeownership can feel ...