An experimental information engine is pushing and exceeding the efficiency boundaries of the conventional second law of thermodynamics.

A study published in Physical Review Letters (PRL) details a "Gambling Carnot Engine" that researchers report can attain 100% ...

A team led by researchers at King’s College London is investigating this by working on a microscopic, single-particle engine.

The second law of thermodynamics underpins all of classical reality. It is the reason why it's easier to make things messy, why you can’t have perpetual motion, why you age, and maybe even why ...

When French engineer Sadi Carnot calculated the maximum efficiency of a heat engine in 1824, he had no idea what heat was. In those days, physicists thought heat was a fluid called caloric. But Carnot ...

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Covers the logical foundations and interrelationships of thermodynamics and their application to problems that are commonly encountered by the chemist. Explanations of abstract concepts in a clear ...

This, however, meant going back to the basics of thermodynamics. Most textbooks advocate the formalism introduced by Ludwig Boltzmann to relate the thermodynamic temperature of a system to its ...

(CNN) — The top-hatted “drinking bird,” once a fixture in science classrooms for demonstrating the basics of thermodynamics, is making a surprising comeback — as the inspiration for a new ...

A. Kleidon, A basic introduction to the thermodynamics of the Earth system far from equilibrium and maximum entropy production, Philosophical Transactions: Biological Sciences, Vol. 365, No. 1545, ...