Researchers have made a breakthrough in applying the first law of thermodynamics to complex systems, rewriting the way we ...

Entropy production lies at the heart of non-equilibrium thermodynamics, a field that examines systems away from equilibrium where continuous energy flows and irreversible processes dominate. In such ...

The special composition question (SCQ), which asks under which conditions objects compose a further object, establishes a central debate in modern metaphysics. Recent successes of inductive ...

An international team of researchers has found a way to investigate equilibrium, or the lack thereof, in cells and other living systems. They discovered that cells violate the fundamental principle of ...

(Phys.org)—For the first time, physicists have performed an experiment confirming that thermodynamic processes are irreversible in a quantum system—meaning that, even on the quantum level, you can't ...