In this video, we explore the relationship between life and entropy, discussing how low entropy life can exist amidst ...

For a technical scientific term, entropy is pretty popular. I mean, it was the title of an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, after all. Search the Internet for “entropy” quotes and you’ll find them ...

Physicists in Italy have shown how to transfer entropy from one ultracold gas to another using a laser beam. They say that the resulting low-entropy gas could be the ideal system for investigating ...

Entropy source controls obtained from keyboard strokes, mouse movements and other physical noises can be used to generate cryptographic keys from random bits. Entropy is one way to reduce hacking ...

Is it possible to create entropy? Is it possible to destroy it? originally appeared on Quora: the place to gain and share knowledge, empowering people to learn from others and better understand the ...

For the romantics among us, physicist Haroldo Ribeiro’s recent work might seem prosaic. He has developed a computer program that deconstructs works of art into sets of numbers. Now Ribeiro has applied ...