For the first time, researchers in China have accurately quantified how chaos increases in a quantum many-body system as it evolves over time. Combining experiments and theory, a team led by Yu-Chen ...

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, ...

Reflecting on World Cancer Day got me thinking about butterflies, a symbol of hope, but, according to the “Butterfly Effect” theory, a small flap of their wings could have major impacts on the world, ...

In 1972, the US meteorologist Edward Lorenz asked a now-famous question: "Does the flap of a butterfly's wings in Brazil set off a tornado in Texas?" The image of the tiny flapping butterfly has come ...

According to Wikipedia, the Butterfly Effect theory is “ a metaphor that encapsulates the concept of sensitive dependence on initial conditions in chaos theory; namely that small differences in the ...

RIT researchers publish a paper in Nature Scientific Reports on a new tree-based machine learning algorithm used to predict chaos.

When people talk about the butterfly effect, they miss a large part of what makes chaos theory so incredible. Lets talk about that, and what it tells us about Earth's atmosphere.

What started as a brainy concept from chaos theory is now the internet’s latest obsession. The butterfly effect — the idea that one tiny action can set off a chain of massive, unpredictable ...

In inpatient child psychology, we treat children in crisis deemed at imminent risk of harm to themselves or others. I am grateful for the opportunity to try and help — but it is daunting. A study ...

TikTok's latest obsession is chaos theory but it's a little less complicated than it sounds. People are using the butterfly effect to make connections between personal and pop culture events. The ...