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Researchers have devised a new way to define thermodynamic concepts in microscopic quantum systems, where conventional distinctions between heat and work begin to blur. Researchers at the University o ...

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Researchers have made a breakthrough in applying the first law of thermodynamics to complex systems. The law is a bedrock of physics, but has long failed to describe systems that are out of ...

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In a study published in Physical Review Letters, physicists have demonstrated that black holes satisfy the third law of ...

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While investigating the causes of the Three Mile Island accident and advising the EPRI (the Electric Power Research Institute) on their research program for the safety issues involved, it became quite ...

A great number of scientific papers and publications come out of the Aspen Center for Physics, but none quite like Assa Auerbach’s latest. The Israeli physicist’s new graphic novel, “Max the Demon vs.

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