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A team of researchers led by a physics graduate student at the University of Massachusetts Amherst made the surprising ...

Many philosophers and scientists have pondered if we live in a simulated universe, and University of Portsmouth scientist ...

A team of researchers led by a physics graduate student at the University of Massachusetts Amherst recently made the ...

The review bridges physics and biology by analyzing how stochastic thermodynamics—a framework describing energy exchanges in microscopic systems—helps explain limitations across diverse biological ...

A scientist gives an answer to a long-standing question in theoretical glass physics: what does it mean to be an order parameter for an inherently out-of-equilibrium system? Starting from first ...

Bendng the laws of thermodynamics, University of Massachusetts Amherst researchers have discovered a surprising ...

A researcher from The University of Osaka resolves a long-standing paradox regarding the theoretical description of glassy ...