The U.S. Supreme Court has denied the final appeal of James Dennis Ford, who is scheduled to be executed in Florida for the 1997 murders of a married couple during a fishing trip.

In 1957, a young man named James O. Maxwell enrolled at Southwestern Christian College, about 30 miles east of Dallas. ...

William Matthaeus, the Martin A. Pomerantz Chair of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Delaware, has won UD’s highest faculty honor — the Francis Alison Award — in recognition of his ...

The second law of thermodynamics, a cornerstone of modern physics, states that entropy—a measure of disorder—never spontaneously decreases. It governs everything from the efficiency of engines to the ...

Researchers from the Nagoya University and Slovak Academy of Sciences have made a ground-breaking discovery that sheds new ...

In simpler terms, the second law of thermodynamics means that things naturally tend to become more disordered over time.

Researchers using the Event Horizon Telescope have significantly advanced our understanding of the supermassive black hole at ...

An international collaboration sheds new light on the relationship between quantum theory and thermodynamics. The research group demonstrated that while the laws of quantum theory alone do not ...

For over a century, the Maxwell’s Demon paradox has haunted physics. This thought experiment suggests that a tiny, ...

Mathematical equations have shaped our understanding of the universe, and these nine have played a key role in changing the world.