from Laura Slocum, JCE High School Associate Editor
New has been defined in various ways—recently made, created, or invented; recently discovered or noticed; recently introduced and previously unfamiliar; at the beginning of another day, month, or year. At this time of year most of us are probably thinking about this last definition of new. However, for […]

I have always liked Rudolph Clausius’s statement of two laws of thermodynamics in the original German: “Die Energie der Welt ist konstant. Die Entropie der Welt strebt einem Maximum zu”. If you know thermodynamics and a little German, this statement summarizes a wealth of experimental data. The title of this editorial is the second law […]