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: ...

Pioneers of evolutionary psychology John Tooby, Leda Cosmides, and H. Clark Barrett argue that “the Second Law of Thermodynamics is the First Law of Psychology” in a 2003 paper of that very name. The ...

In this video, we explore the relationship between life and entropy, discussing how low entropy life can exist amidst ...

By Partha Sinha Entropy fascinates because it announces itself. It spreads, decays and disperses. It makes noise. Like Kali, ...

Thanks to the power of fluctuation relations, physicists are taking the second law of thermodynamics to settings once thought impossible. Since the steam engine began modernizing the world, the second ...