According to the second law of thermodynamics, the entropy of an isolated system tends to increase over time. Everything around us follows this law; for instance, the melting of ice, a room becoming ...

Entropy is one of the most useful concepts in science but also one of the most confusing. This article serves as a brief introduction to the various types of entropy that can be used to quantify the ...

Plant ecologists have proposed a variety of optimization theories to explain the adaptive behaviour and evolution of plants from the perspective of natural selection ('survival of the fittest').

Humans have been making metal alloys for thousands of years, and most of us can conjure a rough mental image of the ...

A team of researchers from Fuzhou University has released a detailed review in Nano-Micro Letters that illustrates how high-entropy materials (HEMs) address the challenges across lithium, sodium, zinc ...