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, ...

Chaos theory -- and no, we're not talking about the operating principle of Congress-- is the attempt to predict the consequences of systems that are so complex their functions seem to be random. And ...

A team of researchers led by the RIKEN center in Japan have discovered an experimental way to control the weather itself using a chaos theory concept related to the flapping of a butterfly’s wings.

Most references to chaos theory center on the seeming fragility of order in complex systems—the butterfly effect. As popularized by storytellers, rather than scientists, the big takeaway from chaos ...

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Edward Lorenz was the father of "chaos theory," also known as the "butterfly effect." He explained how something as small as the flutter of a butterfly's wings could lead to a big change elsewhere in ...