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, ...

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Have you ever heard of the butterfly effect? This is a phenomenon that refers to chaos theory but also has a significance in psychology. It states the idea that a minute localized change in a complex ...

"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 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 ...

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, ...