"What If...?" isn't just a popular Marvel animated series exploring alternate history (just imagine a kind Thanos or a zombie Thor), it's also a favorite question for ...

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, ...

Small changes can have incredibly large and unintended consequences, whether for good or for ill. And no matter how smart you (think you) are, there’s absolutely no way that you can predict all of the ...

A Yale-led study warns that global climate change may have a devastating effect on many butterfly populations worldwide, turning their species-rich, mountain habitats from refuges into traps. Think of ...

Just as the flap of a butterfly’s wings can theoretically influence the course of a hurricane, the tiny choices you make in your relationship can shape its destiny. The butterfly effect, a concept ...

It used to be, if you wanted to see a Poweshiek skipperling butterfly, the thing to do was go out on the prairie and stare into the middle distance, like you were trying to see a sailboat buried in a ...

Predicting the weather is hard because a small unknown in the observed weather today, for example in wind speed or humidity, can have big impacts on our ability to predict future weather. Forecasters ...

"Breaking news: This just in—another national insurer has been fined significantly after an independent industry audit of their AI models. The audit revealed that the third-party data the insurer ...

In 1961, MIT meteorologist Edward Lorenz was inputting numbers into a weather prediction program. His model was based on a dozen variables, the value of one being .506127. When he ran the model again, ...