Science popularization has its legends and heroes, just like any other field, though I’ve heard no plans as yet to open a Hall of Fame. Should that day come, one of the first inductees would ...

The Boltzmann brain hypothesis suggests that our memories are nothing more than unlikely fluctuations. According to the theory, the past and the future don’t exist—only the present does. Researchers ...

In this video, we explore the relationship between information and entropy through James Clerk Maxwell's thought experiment, Maxwell's demon. This concept challenges the Second Law of Thermodynamics ...

Ludwig Boltzmann is best known as the Austrian physicist who wrote down the statistical formula for entropy, but if the physics thing hadn’t worked out, he would have made an excellent travel writer.

What Boltzmann showed was that entropy is a measure of how many different ways a system can be arranged without changing its macrostate. The higher the entropy, the more microstates there are that ...

Entropy is one of the most useful concepts in science but also one of the most confusing. This article serves as a brief introduction to the various types of entropy that can be used to quantify the ...