We have been taught to think of entropy as a bad thing. "Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;/Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world," wrote William Butler Yeats in the aftermath of World War I, ...

Can quantum systems become more disordered, as thermodynamics would predict? Yes, they can - if a proper definition of "entropy" is used. It is one of the most important laws of nature that we know: ...

For more than a century, gravity has been the stubborn outlier in physics, resisting every attempt to merge Einstein’s smooth space-time with the jittery world of quantum mechanics. A new wave of ...

A trapped cloud of ultracold atoms, colder than almost anything found in nature, has become the setting for a deceptively ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Entropy is the process of losing energy and this can apply to physics and social systems alike. JamesBrey/iStock via Getty Images ...

Electron–proton collisions Study reveals importance of entanglement entropy. (Courtesy: Kevin Coughlin/Brookhaven National Laboratory) An international team of physicists has used the principle of ...

Entanglement is one of the most intriguing features of quantum mechanics. It describes non-local correlations between quantum objects, and is at the heart of quantum information sciences. Entanglement ...

Illustration of the mechanisms at play during membrane curvature sensing of disordered proteins. Credit: Zeno et al, JACS 2019 doi:10.1021/jacs.9b03927 Curved lipid ...