Recent research reveals that quantum mechanics can supersede the second law of thermodynamics at the atomic scale, ...

Scientists have built the world’s smallest engine. It consists of a single microscopic particle, smaller than a human cell, levitating in a vacuum. By rattling this lone particle with “noisy” ...

Physicists and computer scientists have recently expanded the modern theory of the thermodynamics of computation. By combining approaches from statistical physics and computer science, the researchers ...

There's a widely reported claim that you can't heat something hotter than the sun using sunlight: https://what-if.xkcd.com/145/ The idea seems to be that no (passive ...

Two physicists at the University of Stuttgart have proven that the Carnot principle, a central law of thermodynamics, does ...

Every computing system, biological or synthetic, from cells to brains to laptops, has a cost. This isn’t the price, which is easy to discern, but an energy cost connected to the work required to run a ...