A 155-year-old thought experiment, long thought to break the laws of thermodynamics, could be made real on a large scale. Maxwell’s demon is a thought experiment first proposed by Scottish ...

Part I. Life. Introduction / Raymond Flood -- Maxwell at Aberdeen / John S. Reid -- Maxwell at King's College, London / John S. Reid -- Cambridge and building the Cavendish Laboratory / Isobel ...

At Solfatara, south of Naples, in the crater of what is called locally the “little Vesuvius” many of the delegates who visited Naples for the recent University celebrations saw the following puzzling ...

A pair of physicists with long ties to PPPL are being honored for their foundational work on turbulence in plasma. Understanding why instabilities occur and how to limit them is critical to perfecting ...

A chemical pump based on a 19th-century thought experiment involving an invisible “demon” could be used to help separate chemicals in drug manufacturing. Maxwell’s demon, first proposed by physicist ...

NMAH copy 39088019916741 purchased with funds from the NMAH Library Endowment. Contents Chronology: principal events in Maxwell's life -- Cast of characters: Maxwell's relations and close friends -- 1 ...

Science writers Forbes (Imitation of Life) and Mahon (The Man Who Changed Everything) explore the lives of ground-breaking physicists Michael Faraday and James Clerk Maxwell in this work that blends ...

The Hawaii-based James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) has discovered a stellar flare 10 billion times more powerful than the Sun’s solar flares This is a history-making discovery that could unlock […] ...

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