In real life, laws are broken all the time. Besides your everyday criminals, there are scammers and fraudsters, politicians and mobsters, corporations and nations that regard laws as suggestions ...

“LIVING organisms (biota) and their non-living (abiotic) environment are inseparably interrelated and interact on each other. Any area of nature that includes living organisms and non-living ...

The likelihood of seeing quantum systems violating the second law of thermodynamics has been calculated by scientists. The team determined a more precise version of a basic law of physics - which says ...

When French engineer Sadi Carnot calculated the maximum efficiency of a heat engine in 1824, he had no idea what heat was. In those days, physicists thought heat was a fluid called caloric. But Carnot ...

A fundamental rule that determines the fate of the universe The second law of thermodynamics means hot things always cool unless you do something to stop them. It expresses a fundamental and simple ...

In the strange, often unintuitive world of quantum physics, one mystery has stood out for decades: Can quantum entanglement be manipulated in a reversible way, like energy in a perfect heat engine?

In a previous article in this series addressing evolution, I commented that some scientists, in an effort to avoid admitting the possibility of a God, will adhere to a theory even if it goes against ...

— What is the zeroth law of thermodynamics? — What is the second law of thermodynamics? — What is the third law of thermodynamics? The first law of thermodynamics states that heat is a form of energy, ...