Instead of the big bang, some physicists have suggested that our universe may have come from a big bounce following another ...

Instead of the big bang, some physicists have suggested that our universe may have come from a big bounce following another ...

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?

With fast heating, sheets of gold can shoot past the theoretical maximum temperature a solid can have before it melts – ...

This is the so-called entropy catastrophe. This critical temperature, where a superheated solid and a liquid have the same entropy, is around three times the melting temperature. Gold has a melting ...

The second law of thermodynamics demands that if we want to make a clock more precise – thereby reducing the disorder, or ...

A new study shows entanglement can be reversed—if you plug in a quantum battery. The finding rewrites the rules of the quantum world.

So forget about being a good loser. Work on the comeback: That’s my advice. Doomed as we may be to entropy, we humans also ...

Last week, standing with the Bible skeptic Michael on the common ground that science affords, we continued to look to the ...

Despite supplements, procedures and injectables promising the appearance of youth, the secret to looking young may lie not in sculpting one’s face but in altering the eyesight of others.

Carbon capture and storage from energy from waste plants can help support a truly circular economy, writes enfinium CEO Mike ...

Letter Published: 30 June 1934 Activities of Life and the Second Law of Thermodynamics J. H. JEANS Nature 133, 986 (1934) Cite this article ...