FROM time to time controversies have appeared in various journals regarding that most difficult of all physical conceptions—entropy. I have purposely avoided passing any opinions as to the merits of ...

There are moments in the history of human thought when a simple realization transforms our understanding of reality. A moment when chaos reveals itself as structure, when disorder folds into meaning, ...

Aircraft engines work better at higher temperatures. As they get hotter, they burn fuel more efficiently, which means they can fly farther on the same volume of propellant. But they can’t get too hot ...

Looking back a variety of distances corresponds to a variety of times since the Big Bang. Entropy has always increased from any moment to the next, but that doesn't mean that the Big Bang began with ...

In the tug-of-war between order and chaos within multielemental carbides, entropy eventually claims victory over enthalpy by pushing the system toward complete disorder as the diversity of elements in ...

In a new study published in Physical Review D, Professor Ginestra Bianconi, Professor of Applied Mathematics at Queen Mary University of London, proposes a new framework that could revolutionize our ...