Entropy is one of the most useful concepts in science but also one of the most confusing. This article serves as a brief introduction to the various types of entropy that can be used to quantify the ...

In bacteria, the two defining processes of the cell cycle, chromosome replication and segregation, progress hand in hand. The roles of the enzymes and proteins involved in chromosome replication have ...

Unscrambling eggs is still impossible, an example of entropy in action. But boiling eggs is no longer the one-way process it used to be. Scientists in California and Australia have figured out how to ...