Image of argon plasma glowing a bluish color in an experiment at the WVU Center for KINETIC Plasma Physics. (Credit: WVU Photo/Brian Persinger) The four laws of thermodynamics are an established ...

West Virginia University physicists have made a breakthrough on an age-old limitation of the first law of thermodynamics. Paul Cassak, professor and associate director of the Center for KINETIC Plasma ...

During a routine set of experiments being conducted in the lab, Anthony Raykh, a graduate student at the University of Massachusetts (UoM) Amherst, accidentally found a rare instance where the laws of ...

Recent research reveals that quantum mechanics can supersede the second law of thermodynamics at the atomic scale, challenging long-held principles of entropy and energy dissipation in microscopic ...

To take a detached view, it could not be said to matter very much if most of the outstanding problems of physics were to remain unsolved. Yet it matters that we should continue to try to solve them, ...