Science popularization has its legends and heroes, just like any other field, though I’ve heard no plans as yet to open a Hall of Fame. Should that day come, one of the first inductees would ...

The flow of time in one direction is so intuitive, so immutable, that we take it utterly for granted. Things don’t fall up; broken pieces don’t reassemble; humans get older, so it goes. Yet time ...

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 ...