Scientists peek inside the mind of Maxwell’s demon
Memory tests uphold the second law of thermodynamics
![Maxwell’s Demon illustration](https://i0.wp.com/www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/071417_ec_Maxwell27s-Demon_free.png?fit=860%2C460&ssl=1)
ORDER FROM DISORDER Maxwell’s Demon (illustrated above) is a hypothetical creature that could illegally decrease entropy, or disorder, by separating faster molecules (blue) from slower ones (green) within a box of gas. Scientist have probed this demon’s memory for the first time.
J. Hirshfeld