Just over 200 years after French engineer and physicist Sadi Carnot formulated the second law of thermodynamics, an international team of researchers has unveiled an analogous law for the quantum ...

Scientists have finally uncovered a quantum counterpart to Carnot’s famed second law, showing that entanglement—once thought ...

The second law of thermodynamics demands that if we want to make a clock more precise – thereby reducing the disorder, or entropy, in the system – we must add energy to it. Any increase in energy, ...

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?

The second law of thermodynamics has played an important role in ecological economics as providing a justification for the view that economies have limits to growth. Yet beyond basic textbooks ...

Letter Published: 22 June 1968 Application of the Second Law of Thermodynamics and Le Chatelier's Principle to the Developing Ecosystem DAVID J. BELLAMY & PETER H. CLARKE Nature 218, 1180 (1968 ...

China's Tianwen 2 probe has captured striking pictures of home as it heads out to a near-Earth asteroid to collect samples.

By leveraging the concept of chirality, or the difference of a shape from its mirror image, EPFL scientists have engineered ...

Canton City Public Health says another mosquito sample has tested positive for West Nile virus, increasing the total to 2. Here's where it was found ...

Object Details maker Baker, Richard P. Description Johannes D. van der Waals (1837-1923), a Dutch teacher, university professor, and theoretical physicist, derived modifications of the law of ...