Recent research reveals that quantum mechanics can supersede the second law of thermodynamics at the atomic scale, ...

Exactly 200 years ago, a French engineer introduced an idea that would quantify the universe’s inexorable slide into decay. But entropy, as it’s currently understood, is less a fact about the world ...

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Penn Engineers have developed a mathematical "Rosetta Stone" that translates atomic and molecular movements into predictions ...