Those of us who remember our school science classes are pretty familiar with the three laws of thermodynamics, but did you know there's another law? The zeroth law of thermodynamics, as its known, was ...

In the early 1970s, people studying general relativity, our modern theory of gravity, noticed rough similarities between the properties of black holes and the laws of thermodynamics. Stephen Hawking ...

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

(via Royal Institution) Why is there a zeroth law of thermodynamics? What use is such a simple-sounding law? And how can it be used to smash glass? Chemical engineer Valeska Ting explains in the first ...