Sometimes, it’s easy for a computer to predict the future. Simple phenomena, such as how sap flows down a tree trunk, are straightforward and can be captured in a few lines of code using what ...

New research finds that chaos plays a bigger role in population dynamics than decades of ecological data seemed to suggest. New Quantum Algorithms Finally Crack Nonlinear Equations Two teams found ...

Frank Merle is used to confronting a messy world. He works on the mathematics of highly nonlinear systems—ones that respond in dramatic, unpredictable ways to even the smallest changes. It’s the same ...