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.

Born 175 years ago, James Clerk Maxwell carried out the first profound unification of nature’s forces. Francis Everitt examines the immense contributions of the greatest mathematical physicist since ...

In 2007 scientists used a light-powered gate to demonstrate the idea of Maxwell’s demon in action; in 2010, another team devised a way to use the energy produced by the demon’s information to coax a ...

A technique to charge a battery inside a quantum computer relies on sorting qubits in an imitation of Maxwell’s demon, a 19th-century thought experiment once thought to break the laws of physics ...

Local News Macon scientist Shekita Maxwell running for Macon-Bibb mayor Here's what she said are her top priorities if she were elected mayor.

There are several great ways for The Alters to conclude, depending on the choices you make. Despite the bumps in the road ...

In the February issue of the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, one scientist laid out a way that far-out Dyson spheres and Dyson rings could hypothetically exist in real ...

Physicists have now probed the memory of Maxwell’s demon, a devious, hypothetical beast. By peeking at information retained by a laboratory version of the creature, scientists confirmed the role ...

Physics Maxwell's demon imagined by physicists really exists inside our cells Proteins in the cell membranes of most organisms act like the hypothetical “demon” imagined by James Clerk Maxwell ...