A monarch butterfly (Dannaux plexippus) flaps its wings in Piedra Herrada Sanctuary, Mexico. Might this start a chain of events that results in a tornado in Texas? Photograph by Jaime Rojo In 1961, ...

Is the 2004 Ashton Kutcher vehicle The Butterfly Effect a good movie? Definitely not, no—but try telling that to me at age thirteen. And then wrap your head, once more, around the fact that if you had ...

Jan. 23 -- Forty-five years ago, Ed Lorenz changed one thing. And that changed everything. Lorenz, a researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, neglected to program his computer one ...

The butterfly effect may even be the source of the compounding impact connected to increasing wealth.(Photo by Tezos on Unsplash ) The butterfly effect, also known as the ripple effect or the chaos ...

Long before I began teaching full time, I was required in a graduate course to write a statement of my teaching philosophy. In my statement, I worked in a plethora of passionately idealistic ...

A research team has developed a novel method for estimating the predictability of complex dynamical systems. Their work, "Time-lagged recurrence: A data-driven method to estimate the predictability of ...