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 ...

Meta has officially announced its acquisition of Butterfly Effect on December 30, 2025, marking a significant move in the tech giant's strategy for AI-driven monetization. This acquisition brings the ...

Jan. 23 -- Forty-five years ago, Ed Lorenz changed one thing. And that changed everything. Lorenz, a researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, neglected to program his computer one ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...