Entropy and information theory form a cornerstone of modern statistical and communication sciences. Entropy serves as a fundamental measure of uncertainty and information content in both physical and ...

Ecology and Society, Vol. 19, No. 3 (Sep 2014) (9 pages) ABSTRACT. For coupled human and natural systems (CHANS), sustainability can be defined operationally as a feasible, desirable set of flows ...

If someone tells you a fact you already know, they’ve essentially told you nothing at all. Whereas if they impart a secret, it’s fair to say something has really been communicated. This distinction is ...

The universe, in all its vastness, is governed by physical laws that dictate the ebb and flow of matter and energy. A cornerstone among these laws is the second law of thermodynamics, which suggests a ...

An MIT physicist has proposed the provocative idea that life exists because the law of increasing entropy drives matter to acquire lifelike physical properties. Popular hypotheses credit a primordial ...

A new theory suggests that gravity could possibly be the result of entropy. If true, this would mean that everything in the universe would fall apart if it all remained unchanged. This theory tries to ...

Entropy is behind one of the most fundamental laws of physics. Entropy is surely one of the most perplexing concepts in physics. It’s variously described as a measure of a system’s disorder - or as ...

Physicists have upended a foundational law of materials science by heating gold to over 19,000°C — more than 14 times its melting point — while it remained perfectly solid. The study, published in ...

From Quanta Magazine (find original story here). Why does life exist? Popular hypotheses credit a primordial soup, a bolt of lightning and a colossal stroke of luck. But if a provocative new theory is ...