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 ...

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 ...

Over the next 50 years, the so-called “butterfly effect” captivated the public imagination. It has appeared in movies, books, motivational and inspirational speeches, and even casual conversation. The ...

What is the butterfly effect? Please can you give some examples of systems that exhibit it? Let’s start with a formal definition: The butterfly effect is a phenomenon associated with chaos theory in ...

In a remarkable scientific breakthrough, researchers at Princeton University have observed a fractal energy pattern in quantum materials that had only been predicted on paper for nearly fifty years.

“Whatever happens to musicians happens to everybody,” said Bruce Sterling years ago, referring to the effects of free downloadable music on their industry; and so it has come to pass for pornographers ...