Leaving a sock on the ground is a manifestation of a concept from physics you may have heard of: entropy. Entropy is ... to think of it like a thermal map of the outside of your house that ...

Entropy isn't well understood in systems that aren't at equilibrium, but a new experiment shows a non-equilibrium phenomenon that actually depends upon entropy. Entropy, the measure of disorder in ...

The entire universe follows a dismal trek toward a dull state of ultimate turmoil. To keep track of this cosmic decay, physicists employ a concept called entropy. Entropy is a measure of ...

Mr. Barnd mangles the concept of entropy when he writes, "By definition, entropy is the degradation of matter and energy in the universe to an ultimate state of inert uniformity, a process of ...

A device based on a 155-year-old thought experiment has been realised at the largest scale yet, and it may help us understand how entropy, or disorder, is produced. It could also someday be used ...

An important consequence of this is that the concept of entropy, originally proposed on the basis of the Carnot theorem, may not be a fundamentally valid thermodynamic quantity. Also, the ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] -- Entropy, the measure of disorder in a physical system, is something that physicists understand well when systems are at equilibrium, meaning there's no ...