Human history is not governed by thermodynamic laws. Still, the vocabulary of metastability, tipping points, and critical ...

New research offers clearer insight into how phase transitions unfold at the atomic scale in real materials. When ice turns into water, the change happens almost instantly. Once the melting ...

Researchers in the Department of Theoretical Physics at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai, have ...

Both a wildfire and activity of digital “neurons” exhibit a phase transition from an active to an absorbing phase. Once a system reaches an absorbing phase, it cannot escape from it without outside ...

This novel take on carbon credits could cure Asia's coal addiction - but critics are sceptical. View on euronews ...