Theoretical breakthrough shows that time’s arrow can emerge naturally from how quantum parts become interconnected.

The second law of thermodynamics rules the universe. Called also the law of entropy, it dictates: Everything moves towards ...

Time feels like the most familiar thing in the world, yet it hides one of physics’ hardest questions: why do we only remember ...

More than 200 years ago, Count Rumford showed that heat isn’t a mysterious substance but something you can generate endlessly ...

Science can now explain the connection between information and consciousness. The answer is simpler—and stranger—than you might expect. The key is self-reference.

Sometimes, however, the weirdness of the internet spills into the real world in unpredictable ways. That’s what just happened to In-N-Out. The famously consistent burger chain just quietly removed ...

IT is said that Christmas has become too commercial—as if in Early Christian times it was just commercial enough—but the real trouble with the holiday, it seems to us, is the discrepancy between the ...

THERE is, I fear, a difficulty in drafting Prof. Bryan's definition so as to be clear as well as accurate. This arises when the definition is first given with reference to the entropy of the working ...

How it works When laser light passes through a cavity filled with atoms, part of it can do useful work. In this example the work is charging a quantum battery (top). The rest of the light turns into ...

For much of the past century, science has often been presented as standing in quiet opposition to belief in God. The deeper ...

While SIMPLE IRAs are in some ways similar to their cousins, traditional and Roth IRAs, they also share some features with workplace retirement plans such as 401(k)s. Understanding your plan's rules ...