The first law of thermodynamics is one of the bedrock laws of physics. Even if you’re not gung-ho for physics research, you ...

Thermodynamics engineers apply thermodynamics principles (energy transfer and conversion) to design, build, and test various products, predominantly in aerospace, but also in other fields like ...

As Homer Simpson once famously phrased, “ in this house we obey the laws of thermodynamics ,” but a new and completely unexpected discovery by a student at the University of Massachusetts Amherst runs ...

Exactly 200 years ago, a French engineer introduced an idea that would quantify the universe’s inexorable slide into decay. But entropy, as it’s currently understood, is less a fact about the world ...

Foundational puzzles surround (Newtonian) gravitational thermal physics--a realm in which stars are treated as akin to molecules in a gas. Whether such an enterprise is successful and the domain of ...

In the strange, often unintuitive world of quantum physics, one mystery has stood out for decades: Can quantum entanglement be manipulated in a reversible way, like energy in a perfect heat engine?