The Maxwell–Boltzmann distribution describes the probability distribution of molecular speeds in a sample of an ideal gas.

James Clerk Maxwell is the scientist responsible for explaining the forces behind the radio in your car, the magnets on your fridge, the heat of a warm summer day and the charge on a battery.

James Clerk Maxwell, a versatile Scottish physicist, significantly contributed to the classical theory of electromagnetic radiation. This theory was groundbreaking as it unified electricity ...

Physicist James Clerk Maxwell imagined his demon in 1867 while thinking about how to cheat the laws of thermodynamics. He considered two boxes of gas separated by a weightless door and a tiny ...

A device based on a 155-year-old thought experiment has been realised at the largest scale yet, and it may help us understand how entropy, or disorder, is produced.

The laboratory version of Maxwell’s demon created by Jonne Koski, a physicist at Aalto University in Finland, and colleagues essentially tricked an electronic circuit into forfeiting heat.

The original thought experiment was first proposed by mathematical physicist James Clerk Maxwell -- one of the most influential scientists in history -- 150 years ago.

Will Self embarks on a road trip from Edinburgh to Cambridge on the trail of Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell who 150 years ago pioneered the theory of the electromagnetic waves which made ...

The Irish physicist George Francis Fitzgerald, one of Maxwell's young disciples, had to write in protest to Nature “to prevent what I find is a very common mistake”.