Thanks to Josh Wardle's viral word game Wordle, millions of people start (or end) their day by actively engaging in a gamified version of information theory. Seventy-odd years ago, an eccentric genius ...

Entropy is behind one of the most fundamental laws of physics. Entropy is surely one of the most perplexing concepts in physics. It’s variously described as a measure of a system’s disorder - or as ...

In the tug-of-war between order and chaos within multielemental carbides, entropy eventually claims victory over enthalpy by ...

Entropy is one of those fearsomely deep concepts that form the core of entire fields of physics (in this case, thermodynamics) that is unfortunately so mathematical that it's difficult to explain in ...

Many philosophers and scientists have pondered if we live in a simulated universe, and University of Portsmouth scientist ...

Journal of Computational Mathematics, Vol. 35, No. 2 (March 2017), pp. 121-151 (31 pages) The Entropy-Ultra-Bee scheme was developed for the linear advection equation and extended to the Euler system ...

Researchers have been able to heat up a sample of solid gold to over 14 times its melting temperature for a fraction of a second, bypassing a theoretical limit known as the entropy catastrophe. The ...