Autonomous Maxwell’s demon displays chilling power
Experiment shows how information can be used to run a refrigerator
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Trafficking in big ideas
Siobhan Roberts’ “unflinchingly honest” biography of John Horton Conway sets Arthur I Miller reflecting on the way mathematical geniuses think
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Why information grows
César Hidalgo explains why information can help us to understand economics
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The wealth of nations
Physicist César Hidalgo's argument for an information-centric view of economic growth is "wildly fresh and creative", says reviewer Mark Buchanan
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Fermionic microscope sees first light
How to clearly image 1000 individual ultracold atoms in a cloud
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‘Golden stars’ pulsate in a strange, non-chaotic way
Discovery could shed light on the physics that drives stellar oscillations
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Social physics and antisocial science
An accessible overview of Sandy Pentland's work on the physics of social networks, reviewed by Martin Zaltz Austwick
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Physics on babies’ bottoms
Mattias Schmidt talks about his work as a physicist at Procter & Gamble
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Roll over, Boltzmann
Jon Cartwright examines whether a new form of entropy can revolutionize our understanding of disorder
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Chaos reigns in unexpected places
New work shows dissipative systems may be chaotic too
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