We are used to heat flowing from hot objects to cool ones, and never the other way round, but now researchers have found it is possible to pull off this trick in the strange realm of quantum mechanics ...

Preserving quantum information is key to developing useful quantum computing systems. But interacting quantum systems are chaotic and follow laws of thermodynamics, eventually leading to information ...

A series of quantum physics experiments and theoretical papers now suggest that heat can flow spontaneously from a cold ...

Preserving quantum information is key to developing useful quantum computing systems. But interacting quantum systems are chaotic and follow laws of ...

California's residential electricity prices are among the highest in the country. That makes heat pumps a tough sell to many ...

In 1974, physicist Stephen Hawking described the potential for tiny, primordial black holes that existed at the dawn of time to explode — and reshaped what we knew about these cosmic behemoths.

Duplicating the information held in quantum computers was thought to be impossible thanks to the no-cloning theorem, but researchers have now found a workaround ...

There are three fundamental problems with this interpretation. First, the respiratory chain is thermodynamically incapable of supporting such an increased Δp without a hypothetical 'change of gear', ...

EPFL researchers have shown theoretically that, in highly ordered materials, heat can flow toward warmer regions without violating the laws of thermodynamics. Their work could help design electronics ...

It feels so obvious that time moves forward that questioning it can seem almost pointless.

Living cells are sustained by countless chemical reactions that must be carefully regulated to maintain internal order and ...