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, ...

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 ...

Plus, relationship therapists share how the trend can be a tool for mindfulness Leave it to TikTok to take an abstract philosophy, spread it across the app, and use it as evidence for how they ...

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 ...

I have always found the ‘butterfly effect’ to be quite an interesting concept. This idea, taken from chaos theory, basically says that small input changes I have always found the ‘butterfly effect’ to ...

Researchers are using chaos theory to 3D-print stunning pieces of jewelry. As Einstein himself said, "The greatest scientists are always artists as well." Monisha Ravisetti was a science writer at ...

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 ...

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 ...