#thermodynamics

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How Life (and Death) Spring From Disorder

Life was long thought to obey its own rules. But as simple systems show signs of lifelike behavior, scientists are arguing about whether this apparent complexity is all a consequence of thermodynamics.

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Argonne researchers posit way to locally circumvent Second Law of Thermodynamics where entropy always i

For more than a century and a half of physics, the Second Law of Thermodynamics, which states that entropy always increases, has been as clo...