Something about freshman dorms compounds messiness. Maybe it’s having less space, or multiple roommates, or no parents. Maybe it’s something else. I remember learning about entropy in my high school ...

Entropy, a measure of the molecular disorder or randomness of a system, is critical to understanding a system’s physical composition. In complex physical systems, the interaction of internal elements ...

We generally think of weather as something that changes by the day, or the week at the most. But there are also slower patterns that exist in the background, nudging your daily weather in one ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. One of the most difficult problems to solve is that of maintaining creativity as an ...

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 ...

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