The second law of thermodynamics is one of those puzzling laws of nature that simply emerges from the fundamental rules. It says that entropy, a measure of disorder in the Universe, must always ...

ALL the King’s horses and all the King’s men couldn’t put Humpty together again. Everyone knows the sorry tale of Humpty Dumpty, but have you ever noticed that the rhyme makes no mention of an egg? In ...

Keeping time accurately comes with a price. The maximum accuracy of a clock is directly related to how much disorder, or entropy, it creates every time it ticks. Natalia Ares at the University of ...