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, ...

In 1972, the US meteorologist Edward Lorenz asked a now-famous question: "Does the flap of a butterfly's wings in Brazil set off a tornado in Texas?" The image of the tiny flapping butterfly has come ...

For the first time, researchers in China have accurately quantified how chaos increases in a quantum many-body system as it evolves over time. Combining experiments and theory, a team led by Yu-Chen ...

It’s always fun to hear about magical coincidences and serendipitous moments, like when someone decides to take a last-minute road trip and ends up meeting the love of their life. On TikTok, many ...

Plus, relationship therapists share how the trend can be a tool for mindfulness Leave it to TikTok to take an abstract philosophy, spread it across the app, and use it as evidence for how they ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about relationships, personality, and everyday psychology. The butterfly effect, a concept rooted in chaos theory and ...

Back in 1961, a meteorologist named Edward Lorenz stumbled upon something extraordinary while working on weather predictions. By tweaking a single number in his calculations just rounding it slightly ...

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, ...