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 ...

Demand for computing power—fueled largely by artificial intelligence (AI)—shows no signs of abating. Yet, as AI becomes a ...

The summer of flooding and irritant-level tropical threats rolls with this week’s focus on a disorganized disturbance in the ...

Several historic and deadly flash flooding events have occurred in the U.S. just within the month of July alone. Experts talk ...

When massive stars reach the end of their lives, something strange and violent happens deep inside them. As they run out of ...

Capt. Edward A. Murphy, an American aerospace engineer, performed several complicated studies on deceleration for the U.S.

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 ...