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 ...

The Second Law of Thermodynamics states that entropy within an isolated system always increases. This iron-clad law has remained true for a very long time. However, researchers from the U.S.

Journal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie, Vol. 37, No. 2 (Oct., 2006), pp. 287-306 (20 pages) Well known quantum and time paradoxes, and the ...

When the research paper arrived on March 4 at Physical Review Letters, one of the world's top physics journals, editors winced. "Experimental Demonstration of Violations of the Second Law of ...