It is one of the most important laws of nature that we know: The famous second law of thermodynamics says that the world gets more and more disordered when random chance is at play. Or, to put it more ...

MR. SWINBURNE has directed attention to an obscure point in my letter of November 10 which is calculated to produce quite the contrary impression to what I intended. In defining available energy ...

I recently led a webinar on the laws of thermodynamics, which got me thinking: A business is very much a closed system, such as a universe. Therefore, if entropy is always increasing in a closed ...

For more than a century, thermodynamics has described how heat flows and engines run, while quantum mechanics has ruled the ...

There was some excitement last week about a Maxwell's-Demon-type experiment conducted by Shoichi Toyabe and collaborators in Japan. (Costly Nature Physics article here; free arxiv version here.) It's ...

FROM time to time controversies have appeared in various journals regarding that most difficult of all physical conceptions—entropy. I have purposely avoided passing any opinions as to the merits of ...