During a routine set of experiments being conducted in the lab, Anthony Raykh, a graduate student at the University of ...

You might be wondering why their work and this research are not all about the exciting violation of the second law of thermodynamics or ushering in the age of quantum perpetual motion machines.

In thermodynamics, entropy represents an inexorable ... its energy dispersing, its useful work diminishing, its structure dissolving into chaos. This fundamental principle may offer us a powerful ...