For a technical scientific term, entropy is pretty popular. I mean, it was the title of an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, after all. Search the Internet for “entropy” quotes and you’ll find them ...

Physicists in South Africa ran the math on collapsing neutron stars and landed somewhere odd. Researchers from Durban ...

Imagine if a cold cup of coffee spontaneously heated up as you watched. Or a cracked pane of glass suddenly un-broke. According to physicist Lorenzo Maccone at the Massachusetts Institute of ...

Sometimes, halfway through reading a paper, I wonder if the editors have been Sokaled (if this is not a word, it really should be), fooled by a vaguely scientific-sounding parody. This is one of those ...

In T.H. White’s fantasy novel The Once and Future King, Merlyn the magician suffers from a rare and incurable condition: He experiences time in reverse. He knows what will happen, he laments, but not ...

11:12, Tue, Dec 12, 2017 Updated: 14:21, Tue, Dec 12, 2017 A complicated experiment has found an exception to an important scientific law relating to heat and energy transfers. It has essentially seen ...