The term entropy is used in information theory as a "measure of the uncertainty associated with a random variable" and refers to an axiom called the Shannon Entropy. The concept was introduced by ...

Science popularization has its legends and heroes, just like any other field, though I’ve heard no plans as yet to open a Hall of Fame. Should that day come, one of the first inductees would ...

Behind the veil: A black hole's event horizon contains an infinite number of microstates, but expressing these microstates in terms of a finite set of representative quantum superpositions makes it ...