In classical physics, anything driven hard enough will eventually heat up, lose coherence, and settle into disorder. A new ...

Physicists have built a quantum gas that behaves nothing like the substances we are used to, and that is exactly why it is ...

Clocks pervade our lives, from the cellular clocks inside our bodies to the atomic clocks that underlie satellite navigation. These atomic clocks can measure time accurately to within one second in ...

A 155-year-old thought experiment, long thought to break the laws of thermodynamics, could be made real on a large scale. Maxwell’s demon is a thought experiment first proposed by Scottish ...

Physicists have created a device that has experimentally exceeded the conventional second law of thermodynamics. The device is an information engine, which converts information into work, and it is ...

Your lukewarm cup of coffee won’t suddenly heat itself up, no matter how long you put off the trek to the microwave. But the same rule doesn’t necessarily apply to quantum systems. Like chilly air ...

11:12, Tue, Dec 12, 2017 Updated: 14:21, Tue, Dec 12, 2017 A complicated experiment has found an exception to an important scientific law relating to heat and energy transfers. It has essentially seen ...

Here’s a video showing a lesson in thermodynamics with Peeps. Yes, Peeps. (If you don’t know what Peeps are, they are marshmallow candies in animal shapes. They used to appear in stores at Easter time ...