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 ...

Entropy is something very peculiar. Let's remember that all physical quantities are conserved: In any closed system, energy is conserved, matter is conserved, momentum is conserved. That means that ...

For more than a century, gravity has been the stubborn outlier in physics, perfectly described on cosmic scales yet refusing to mesh with the quantum rules that govern everything else. A growing camp ...

You must have heard one more time from somewhere that our brains are literally made of the same ‘star stuff’ as the universe.truncate But it gets way weirder. A 2016 study claimed scientists had ...

Pioneers of evolutionary psychology John Tooby, Leda Cosmides, and H. Clark Barrett argue that “the Second Law of Thermodynamics is the First Law of Psychology” in a 2003 paper of that very name. The ...