Most materials go from being solids to liquids when they are heated. One rare counter-example is helium-3, which can solidify upon heating. This counterintuitive and exotic effect, known as the ...

Publication details Peter Amendt, Entropy generation from hydrodynamic mixing in inertial confinement fusion indirect-drive targets, Physics of Plasmas (2021). DOI: 10.1063/5.0049114 Journal ...

(via PBS Space Time) Entropy is surely one of the most perplexing concepts in physics. It’s variously described as a measure of a system’s disorder - or as the amount of useful work that you can get ...

Keeping time accurately comes with a price. The maximum accuracy of a clock is directly related to how much disorder, or entropy, it creates every time it ticks. Natalia Ares at the University of ...