This engine doesn’t power anything in particular except our deeper understanding of thermodynamics as well microscopic ...

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 ...

Researchers have made a breakthrough in applying the first law of thermodynamics to complex systems. The law is a bedrock of physics, but has long failed to describe systems that are out of ...

Scientists develop a microscopic heat engine that achieves 100% efficiency, accomplishing what seemed impossible.