If you have a deep-seated, nagging worry over dropping your phone in molten lava, you're in luck. Materials scientists have developed a method for rapidly discovering a new class of materials with ...

Entropy, the amount of molecular disorder, is produced in several systems but cannot be measured directly. A new equation sheds new light on how entropy is produced on a very short time scale in laser ...

Thermodynamic spontaneity—whether a reaction can go—can be measured by changes in either of two parameters: entropy or free energy.

Explore the intriguing solution to Maxwell's demon paradox as Rolf Landauer reveals how erasing information generates heat ...

The big thinkers at Aperture explore entropy and the eventual heat death of the universe.