By Partha Sinha Entropy fascinates because it announces itself. It spreads, decays and disperses. It makes noise. Like Kali, ...

Inside high-energy proton collisions, quarks and gluons briefly form a dense, boiling state before cooling into ordinary ...

Proton collisions at the LHC appear wildly chaotic, but new data reveal a surprising underlying order. The findings confirm that a basic rule of quantum mechanics holds true even in extreme particle ...

Nanoscale device employs magnetic tunnel junctions to convert thermal noise into binary signals for random number generation.

Rebecca Newberger Goldstein argues that a good life is one that seeks to create order out of a natural state of chaos.

What is the fundamental nature of reality? What is the true essence of human consciousness? These questions will take center stage at the Nature of Reality Seminar, a major interdisciplinary gathering ...

High energy proton collisions can be pictured as a roiling sea of quarks and gluons, including short lived virtual particles. At first glance, this ...

Forgetting feels like a failure of attention, but physics treats it as a fundamental process with a measurable price. At the ...

The idea that reality might be a kind of cosmic software has moved from late night dorm debates into serious physics journals ...

A new JSTAT study shows how to compute the minimum energy cells use to sustain certain metabolic pathways while suppressing ...

A multi-disciplinary team of researchers linked atomic-scale features to efficient heat-to-electricity conversion, offering ...

There are "costs of life" that mechanical physics cannot calculate. A clear example is the energy required to keep specific ...