Human history is not governed by thermodynamic laws. Still, the vocabulary of metastability, tipping points, and critical ...

New research offers clearer insight into how phase transitions unfold at the atomic scale in real materials. When ice turns into water, the change happens almost instantly. Once the melting ...

Researchers in the Department of Theoretical Physics at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai, have ...

Researchers from the University of Tokyo in collaboration with Aisin Corporation have demonstrated that universal scaling laws, which describe how the properties of a system change with size and scale ...

For the first time in history, the United Nations has adopted a deal in which its members have agreed to begin moving away from using fossil fuels. While the Cop president Sultan Al-Jaber called the ...

Both a wildfire and activity of digital “neurons” exhibit a phase transition from an active to an absorbing phase. Once a system reaches an absorbing phase, it cannot escape from it without outside ...