In the present work we present a didactic reconstruction of de Broglie’s demonstration of the equivalence between two fundamental physical concepts: action minimization and entropy maximization. The ...

Living cells pay a hidden energy price not just to run chemical reactions, but to keep them on track and block all the ...

There are “costs of life” that mechanical physics cannot calculate. A clear example is the energy required to keep specific ...

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Chris Impey has received funding from NASA, NSF, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and the Templeton Foundation. If you look across space with a telescope, you’ll see countless galaxies, most of which ...

Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s exit from politics after nearly 40 years in the game is a stark reminder that too much of our political class is like her: long-haul careerists who cling to the reins of power — ...

A team in Japan has harnessed non-thermal quantum states to break classical thermodynamic limits, converting waste heat into electricity with record efficiency. Credit: Stock Researchers have ...

Landauer's principle is a thermodynamics concept also relevant in information theory, which states that erasing one bit of information from an information system results in the dissipation of at least ...

This research was conducted in the Autonomous Materials Systems group at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. We acknowledge ...

Creative Commons (CC): This is a Creative Commons license. Attribution (BY): Credit must be given to the creator. We analyze the mechanisms leading to thermodynamic stable states and isobaric phase ...

The activity coefficient in electrolyte systems is a key measure of deviations from ideal behavior, essential for simulating the thermodynamic properties of these systems. Accurate modeling and ...