The coupled biosphere—atmosphere system entails a vast range of processes at different scales, from ecosystem exchange fluxes of energy, water and carbon to the processes that drive global ...

A team of Spanish and Argentinean researchers has verified that the distribution of the inhabitants in each Spanish province evolves in accordance with the maximum entropy principle in the field of ...

Maximum entropy aligned much more cleanly with the mutations the virus actually adopted under drug pressure. That opened the possibility of forecasting its "next move," as Warshel put it—a way of ...

For all its tumult — erupting stars, colliding galaxies, collapsing black holes — the cosmos is a surprisingly orderly place. Theoretical calculations have long shown that the entropy of the universe ...

Entropy is one of the most useful concepts in science but also one of the most confusing. This article serves as a brief introduction to the various types of entropy that can be used to quantify the ...