Exactly 200 years ago, a French engineer introduced an idea that would quantify the universe’s inexorable slide into decay. But entropy, as it’s currently understood, is less a fact about the world ...

What is the concept of entropy? Embedded-system applications that exploit entropy. How to implement entropy. What sources of entropy are available? Computers are designed to be predictable. Under the ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. I recently led a webinar on the laws of thermodynamics, which got me thinking: A business is ...

Entropy is something very peculiar. Let's remember that all physical quantities are conserved: In any closed system, energy is conserved, matter is conserved, momentum is conserved. That means that ...

I have before me a letter from Jeremy Rifkin, author of Entropy: A New World View. His communication states that "entropy helps explain why we have runaway inflation, soaring unemployment, bloated ...

By breaking the rules of atomic order, scientists have created MXenes unlike any seen before. Nine metals now share a single ...

You must have heard one more time from somewhere that our brains are literally made of the same ‘star stuff’ as the universe.truncate But it gets way weirder. A 2016 study claimed scientists had ...

Pioneers of evolutionary psychology John Tooby, Leda Cosmides, and H. Clark Barrett argue that “the Second Law of Thermodynamics is the First Law of Psychology” in a 2003 paper of that very name. The ...