Physicists at the University of Bonn have experimentally proven that an important theorem of statistical physics applies to so-called "Bose-Einstein condensates." Their results now make it possible to ...

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Thermodynamics and statistical physics provide complementary frameworks for describing many-particle systems. Thermodynamics identifies a small set of macroscopic variables—energy, entropy, volume, ...

The cryosphere — the part of Earth’s climate system consisting of snow and ice — is undergoing rapid and massive perturbations due to planetary warming. For instance, almost half the summer Arctic sea ...

A clever mathematical tool known as virtual particles unlocks the strange and mysterious inner workings of subatomic particles. What happens to these particles within atoms would stay unexplained ...