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Maxwell's Demon Can Extract Energy From Hidden Memories, Study Finds


In 1867, physicist James Clerk Maxwell did something very naughty.  He proposed an apparent violation of the second law of thermodynamics so diabolically clever that other physicists have been trying to resolve it ever since.

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