Inside high-energy proton collisions, quarks and gluons briefly form a dense, boiling state before cooling into ordinary ...

What's an intuitive way to understand entropy? originally appeared on Quora: the knowledge sharing network where compelling questions are answered by people with unique insights. Answer by Mark ...

Science popularization has its legends and heroes, just like any other field, though I’ve heard no plans as yet to open a Hall of Fame. Should that day come, one of the first inductees would ...

The simplified formula was developed to analyze local quantum entanglement in nanoscale materials. News organizations may use or redistribute this image, with proper attribution, as part of news ...

High energy proton collisions can be pictured as a roiling sea of quarks and gluons, including short lived virtual particles. At first glance, this ...

Intermetallic compounds—ordered structures of two or more metallic elements—have long been studied and developed for high-temperature applications 1,2,3,4. More recently, the high-entropy alloy-design ...

To many physicists, “Tsallis entropy” has been a revolution in statistical mechanics. To others, it is merely a useful fitting technique. Jon Cartwright tries to make sense of this world of disorder. ...