Meteorologist Edward Lorenz has died. He laid the foundations for the field of scientific study called chaos theory. He famously suggested that a butterfly flapping its wings in Brazil could ...

You know the old theory about how a butterfly flapping its wings in New Mexico can, through chaos theory, help lead to a hurricane in China? In this case, the butterfly was in Milwaukee. And the ...

I’ve always been fascinated by the butterfly effect because I find it relatable to therapy. The theory says small things can lead to large-scale changes in the future state. The concept is imagined ...

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 ...

Alonso notes that the most important thing anyone can do, especially in the U.S., is plant milkweed native to where they live ...

The annual monarch butterfly migration is well underway. The insects are due to arrive in Mexico just in time for the Day of the Dead in early November. For decades, scientists with the nonprofit ...

The Butterfly Effect, as its basis, posits that a butterfly flapping its wings in Brazil could impact weather patterns that eventually result in a tornado touching down in Texas. At least, that was ...