In this video, we explore the relationship between life and entropy, discussing how low entropy life can exist amidst ...

No matter how hard we try to get our lives together, things seem to get more complicated. Problems emerge in our relationships and family life, finances, work, health and so on, that seem impossible ...

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 ...

Readers such as Bryn Glover discuss how we should define life (Letters, 4 April). Could we do so by considering what it does? Life exists in bounded systems and it locally “reverses” the Second Law of ...

Alison Carr-Chellman does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...

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 ...

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 ...