Socio-economics, natural capital and other esoteric notions prove themselves to be inadequate again and again when researchers and economists attempt to quantify the degree of sustainability. But, ...

Seawater is a complex, dynamic mixture of dissolved minerals, salts, and organic materials that despite scientists best efforts, presents difficulties in measuring its potential to contain and ...

An Equation of State describes the equilibrium conditions of a system in terms of values of (p,v,T) that generate the equilibrium surface of state for the substance. For an Ideal Gas the equation of ...

Scientists have finally cracked the code to make the perfect pizza every time. During a recent visit to Italy, physicists Andreas Glatz and Andrey Varlamov began to wonder why pizza tastes best when ...

Thanks to the power of fluctuation relations, physicists are taking the second law of thermodynamics to settings once thought impossible. Since the steam engine began modernizing the world, the second ...