Researchers have made a breakthrough in applying the first law of thermodynamics to complex systems. The law is a bedrock of physics, but has long failed to describe systems that are out of ...

CHARLIE KIRK (HOST): You've taken on the entire kind of climate science world. Energy department attacks climate science in contentious report. By the way, you're in safe company here. We think this ...

Gold usually melts at 1,300 kelvins—a temperature hotter than fresh lava from a volcano. But scientists recently shot a nanometers-thick sample of gold with a laser and heated it to an astonishing ...

AUSTIN, Texas (KBTX) -A new school year is just around the corner, and Texas homeschool families now have more opportunities thanks to new laws signed by Governor Greg Abbott. Last month, Governor ...

ABSTRACT: The zeroth law of thermodynamics, the Nernst-Simon and Planck statements of the third law of thermodynamics and the unattainability statement of the absolute temperature, T = 0, are ...

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 ...

Researchers have broken a centuries-old law of physics, putting us on a path towards making better energy-harvesting devices, such as solar cells. Atoms at temperatures beyond absolute zero may be a ...

DECATUR, Ill. (WAND) - Hot, summer weather is coming! And, to understand why it's getting so hot, let us examine the first law of thermodynamics. The first law of thermodynamics, also known as the law ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1950 the Italian physicist Enrico Fermi was discussing the possibility of intelligent alien life with his colleagues. If alien ...

Retirement planning may not be rocket science, but that doesn’t mean you can ignore the laws of physics. Think back to your high school physics class and you might recall the Second Law of ...