A nuclear engineer reacts to Veritasium’s explanation of entropy, exploring this fundamental physics concept and its ...

For scientists, breakthroughs often stem from unexpected turns. A research team led by Oscar Dahlsten, an associate professor ...

Can quantum systems become more disordered, as thermodynamics would predict? Yes, they can - if a proper definition of "entropy" is used. It is one of the most important laws of nature that we know: ...

"Time flows in a straight line from the past to the future."We take this for granted.Clock hands move forward, and we cannot ...

A tool for estimating the local entropy production rate of a system enables the visualization and quantification of the out-of-equilibrium regions of an active-matter system. Figure 1: Researchers ...

Theorists place bounds on the energy consumption of a mesoscopic nonequilibrium system using parameters that are experimentally accessible. Figure 1: Researchers have developed a model that can place ...

Recent research shows that gravity and quantum information are deeply connected and that the shape of spacetime can be traced back to the way information is stored in quantum fields. Einstein's theory ...

Theorists place bounds on the energy consumption of a mesoscopic nonequilibrium system using parameters that are experimentally accessible. Figure 1: Researchers have developed a model that can place ...