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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Chaos theorists refer to the “butterfly effect” to describe seemingly insignificant events — like the ripple of a butterfly’s wing — that can have unintended consequences. But there might be a more ...

Control of Congress has become so precariously balanced between the two parties that it may now be subject to the butterfly effect. The butterfly effect is a mathematical concept, often applied to ...

The Fish and Wildlife Service is considering federal protections for the beloved butterfly. But some biologists who study the monarch say the evidence doesn’t support listing. Monarch butterfly expert ...