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More than 200 years ago, Count Rumford showed that heat isn’t a mysterious substance but something you can generate endlessly through motion. That insight laid the foundation for thermodynamics, the ...

The physics of thermodynamics, which involves quantities like heat and entropy, offers well-established tools for determining how far from equilibrium an idealised system of particles is. But when it ...

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Participation is plummeting in the community-driven feature that X owner Elon Musk touted as the solution to the social media site’s misinformation problems. Submissions to X’s Community Notes, which ...

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An international collaboration sheds new light on the relationship between quantum theory and thermodynamics. The research group demonstrated that while the laws of quantum theory alone do not ...

If you’ve opened the Notes app on your iPhone recently, only to find every entry is missing, you’ve come across a “scary bug” which seems to have been widespread. Apple has now commented on this ...

Have you recently checked the notes in Apple Notes on your iPhone only to discover that they've mysteriously disappeared? You're not alone. The problem is apparently hitting other iPhone users as well ...

When iPhone users accepted new iCloud terms, some were shocked to see all their Notes disappear from the app. Here's how to get them back. A recent bug affecting Apple's Notes app has left some iPhone ...

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