entropy

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Energy and entropy together determine whether a chemical process happens on its own.

From Science Daily • Jan. 31, 2026

"He was like, 'it's about atrophy and entropy and the forces of the universe'," he said.

From Barron's • Jan. 23, 2026

It would be easier to argue that the best defense against entropy is to stand athwart any change in taste and manners, as Plato advised in the “Republic.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026

A team led by the University of Oxford has uncovered an unexpected contributor to entropy in quantum timekeeping: the act of measurement itself.

From Science Daily • Nov. 17, 2025

The nondecreasing behavior of a black hole’s area was very reminiscent of the behavior of a physical quantity called entropy, which measures the degree of disorder of a system.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking