Bitcoin’s high entropy ensures fairness and unpredictability in solving Proof-of-Work cryptographic puzzles. Negative digital entropy strengthens Bitcoin, making the network more secure and ...

Pioneers of evolutionary psychology John Tooby, Leda Cosmides, and H. Clark Barrett argue that “the Second Law of Thermodynamics is the First Law of Psychology” in a 2003 paper of that very name. The ...

A new theory suggests that gravity could possibly be the result of entropy. If true, this would mean that everything in the universe would fall apart if it all remained unchanged. This theory tries to ...

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 ...

Many proofs are known for the inequality between the arithmetic mean and the geometric mean. This note gives a new derivation, interpreting the means as final and initial values of entropy, and the ...

The Nature Index 2024 Research Leaders — previously known as Annual Tables — reveal the leading institutions and countries/territories in the natural and health sciences, according to their output in ...