entropy

Researchers focused on temporary increases in brain "entropy," a term describing the variety and unpredictability of neural activity.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 22, 2026

Her work examines whether a theory known as Gravity from Entropy can help explain how cosmic complexity emerges even as the Universe's total entropy increases.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 21, 2026

In other words, the Universe can contain more entropy overall while entropy becomes more widely distributed across expanding space.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 21, 2026

Ashtekar and his colleagues have now proposed a new method for determining a black hole's entropy, a quantity that measures disorder and, according to the second law of thermodynamics, can never decrease.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 13, 2026

To stay alive, you have to be able to hold out against equilibrium, maintain imbalance, bank against entropy, and you can only transact this business with membranes in our kind of world.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas

These entropies quantify not only uncertainty but also the efficiency with which we can perform information-processing tasks, like data compression, and thermodynamic tasks, like the powering of a car.

From Scientific American ● Apr. 20, 2020

Had her eighty-four years of life uncovered any truth about the inherent entropies of marriage, or had Peggy elevated Elena’s moth-eaten memories to wisdom, to gospel, to oracular revelation?

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 15, 2019

The masses of these molecules would suggest the opposite trend in their entropies.

From Textbooks ● Feb. 14, 2019

One method involves the use of standard enthalpies and entropies to compute standard free energy changes, ΔG°, according to the following relation.

From Textbooks ● Feb. 14, 2019

This picture is part of a series I call "entropies": of objects on their way to disappearance through age and decay.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 5, 2011