New research shows that the second law of thermodynamics, which states entropy increases over time, also applies to closed ...

The famous second law of thermodynamics says that the world gets more and more disordered when random chance is at play. Or, ...

Entropy always increases, but in quantum systems, traditional entropy measures seem constant. TU Wien researchers resolved this paradox by considering Shannon entropy, which accounts for the ...

This week, astronomers reported the discovery of a super-Earth potentially capable of sustaining life, occupying an eccentric orbit around its star that oscillates in and out of the habitable zone.

All of which helps clarify, for me at least, how the evolution of the Universe is indeed consistent with the second law. Thinking about thermodynamics and the nature of equilibrium just isn't ...

The grave of renowned writer Octavia Butler, whose novel Parable of the Sower eerily envisioned fires consuming Los Angeles, ...

The award-winning 24th annual First Flight educational program will transform Honda Center into the largest science of hockey ...

Philip Ball looks at how a little-known paper by Niels Bohr demonstrates the turmoil in physics on the brink of quantum ...

Game director Frederic St. Laurent and CTO Louis Tremblay discuss using Unreal Engine 5's tools and artistic choices.

The grandfather paradox is just one of the thorny logical problems that arise with the concept of time travel. But one ...

The Big Freeze The Big Freeze, also known as the Heat Death, is a scenario where the universe continues expanding ...