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Most people hear “spacecraft” and envision rockets blasting into space, but they’re often not aware of the meticulous ...

Entropy always increases, but in quantum systems, traditional entropy measures seem constant. TU Wien researchers resolved this paradox by considering Shannon entropy, which accounts for the ...

British philosopher Bertrand Russell said of the difference between our physical world experience and the scientific world of continually changing matter, “There is … some conflict between what common ...

In simple terms, that assertion is correct, but for those with an expertise in the field, the longer answer to who did it ...

Philip Ball looks at how a little-known paper by Niels Bohr demonstrates the turmoil in physics on the brink of quantum ...

UC Davis researchers developed stable platinum catalysts for hydrogenation, enhancing efficiency with nanoscale confinement ...

The famous second law of thermodynamics says that the world gets more and more disordered when random chance is at play. Or, ...

Once a year, the Large Hadron Collider smashes lead ions. But how do scientists get a heavy metal into a particle accelerator ...