I have always felt connected to the thermodynamic principle of entropy. I believed that my body at rest demonstrated the concept perfectly—and I now know that to be true, but not at all in the way ...

While it is not obvious on the surface, this conception of entropy—known as statistical entropy —allows us to think about disorder in terms of information, and in doing so, we see that entropy is ...

Thermodynamic spontaneity—whether a reaction can go—can be measured by changes in either of two parameters: entropy or free energy.