The interdisciplinary nexus of statistical mechanics and information theory has provoked substantial insight into the behaviour of complex systems. By leveraging concepts such as entropy, phase ...

In a video from the early 1950s, Bell Labs scientist Claude Shannon demonstrates one of his new inventions: a toy mouse named Theseus that looks like it could be a wind-up. The gaunt Shannon, looking ...

In all of physical law, there’s arguably no principle more sacrosanct than the second law of thermodynamics — the notion that entropy, a measure of disorder, will always stay the same or increase. “If ...