Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The first law of thermodynamics is undergoing a huge renovation. A team lead by researchers at West Virginia University released a paper detailing ...

Just over 200 years after French engineer and physicist Sadi Carnot formulated the second law of thermodynamics, an international team of researchers has unveiled an analogous law for the quantum ...

Two physicists at the University of Stuttgart have proven that the Carnot principle, a central law of thermodynamics, does not apply to objects on the atomic scale whose physical properties are linked ...