Lake effect is common during the late fall and winter across the Great Lakes. It is so common that there are areas known as ...

Researchers at the Federal University of ABC, in Brazil, have made a major breakthrough: they've confirmed that thermodynamic processes cannot be reversed, even in a quantum system. This revelation ...

Crystal clear: transmission electron microscope image showing a blob of amorphous calcium phosphate that is beginning to crystallize at the bottom left. (Courtesy: Antiope Lotsari/Chalmers University ...

In biophysics, the kinetic states of molecules play a determining role in the metabolic and physiological processes in which they take part. Now, a new article specifies for the first time the levels ...

Scientists learned that reading a quantum clock requires orders of magnitude more energy than running it. This surprising imbalance reveals that observation itself shapes the flow and thermodynamics ...

Synthese, Vol. 196, No. 5, Special Issue on Infinite Idealizations in Science (May 2019), pp. 1761-1781 (21 pages) This paper discusses an argument by Norton (in: European Philosophy of ...