Water molecules do not simply swirl around in complete disorder; they can form certain preferred structures. This scientific ...

Entropy, the amount of molecular disorder, is produced in several systems but cannot be measured directly. A new equation sheds new light on how entropy is produced on a very short time scale in laser ...

Entropy gets a bad rap. Typically associated with randomness and chaos, it can also correlate with freedom and diversity.

For Boris Belousov, vindication came too late. When the Soviet biochemist was awarded his country’s prestigious Lenin prize in 1980, he had been dead for 10 years. At least he lived long enough to see ...