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, ...

TikTok's latest obsession is chaos theory but it's a little less complicated than it sounds. People are using the butterfly effect to make connections between personal and pop culture events. The ...

The flutter of a butterfly’s wing can cause a hurricane around the world. Now, one butterfly’s wing flutter cannot literally cause a storm across the globe. The Butterfly Effect, according to the ...

According to Wikipedia, the Butterfly Effect theory is “ a metaphor that encapsulates the concept of sensitive dependence on initial conditions in chaos theory; namely that small differences in the ...

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 ...