A new discovery could be the beginning of a general framework of rules for seemingly unpredictable non-equilibrium systems, explain researchers. Scientists have long known the ins and outs of ...

Arguably, almost all truly intriguing systems are ones that are far away from equilibrium -- such as stars ... We now know it's only the expected entropy of a system that can't decrease with ...

If it's Super Bowl Sunday, the visual system sees those carrots on a veggie tray before the prefrontal cortex knows they exist. Published April 11 in Nature Communications, the study provides some ...

“In equilibrium, there is a fantastic framework that is very well tested. There are almost no assumptions,” said Northwestern Engineering’s Erik Luijten. “The problem is that most systems in nature ...