The unique properties of high-entropy alloys make them ideal for hydrogen storage, offering advantages in stability and ...

Three thought experiments involving “demons” have haunted physics for centuries. What should we make of them today?

In a study published in Physical Review Letters, physicists have demonstrated that black holes satisfy the third law of thermodynamics, which states that entropy remains positive and vanishes at ...

Physicists have spent a century trying to reconcile the smooth fabric of spacetime in general relativity with the jittery ...

More than 200 years ago, Count Rumford showed that heat isn’t a mysterious substance but something you can generate endlessly ...

Even the best telescopes can’t see exoplanets. It’s all about watching for jiggly stars, blue shifts, and transits.

A boiling sea of quarks and gluons, including virtual ones—this is how we can imagine the main phase of high-energy proton collisions. It would seem that particles here have significantly more ...

Science can now explain the connection between information and consciousness. The answer is simpler—and stranger—than you might expect. The key is self-reference.

An engineering team at Jiangxi Normal University, in collaboration with South China University of Technology, reports an entropy-driven strategy to ...

Sometimes, however, the weirdness of the internet spills into the real world in unpredictable ways. That’s what just happened ...

Our associate editor for RSC Applied Interfaces offers his advice to authors looking to grab the attention of his editorial ...

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