What Entropy Is, and Is Not To judge from the writings of C.R Snow, entropy and the second law of thermodynamics were once indelicate subjects. Now things have changed, and on the cocktail party ...

Meanwhile perhaps it is time for the Arduino folks to re-appraise their documentation. The subject of entropy and generating random numbers is one that has appeared on these pages many times.

Adding energy to a group of ultracold atoms should make them fly away from each other with many different energies, but ...

[Lambgx02] got tired of his Android device getting bogged down and decided to dig down to the cause of the issue. His investigation led him to believe that entropy is causing the slowdown. He belie… ...

More information: Thomas G. White et al, Superheating gold beyond the predicted entropy catastrophe threshold, Nature (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-025-09253-y ...

Entropy maximizing methods are popular in geography, civil engineering, and planning, but are not easy for nonspecialists to understand. Entropy is a measure of uncertainty. A reasonable means of ...

Decades ago, a renegade physicist suggested that gravity isn't so much a force as just a byproduct of the universe's tendency to get more disordered. Now this idea might finally be testable ...

Researchers taking the first-ever direct measurement of atom temperature in extremely hot materials inadvertently disproved a decades-old theory and upended our understanding of superheating.