MY old boss – a master of sarcasm – used to say of nuclear power plants, “you can build power plants faster than nukes, but you can’t ...

For over a century, the Maxwell’s Demon paradox has haunted physics. This thought experiment suggests that a tiny, ...

The second law of thermodynamics, a cornerstone of modern physics, states that entropy—a measure of disorder—never spontaneously decreases. It governs everything from the efficiency of engines to the ...

Researchers from the Nagoya University and Slovak Academy of Sciences have made a ground-breaking discovery that sheds new ...

In simpler terms, the second law of thermodynamics means that things naturally tend to become more disordered over time.

Researchers using the Event Horizon Telescope have significantly advanced our understanding of the supermassive black hole at ...

An international collaboration sheds new light on the relationship between quantum theory and thermodynamics. The research group demonstrated that while the laws of quantum theory alone do not ...

Mathematical equations have shaped our understanding of the universe, and these nine have played a key role in changing the world.