Jeff Goldblum’s character (the lovable bachelor in distress) in Jurassic Park brought about public awareness to the general concept of chaos theory. This strange branch of mathematics deals with ...

The discovery of deterministic chaos—the aperiodic deterministic dynamics of a nonlinear system demonstrating sensitivity to initial conditions—has led to a major paradigm shift, overthrowing two ...

Researchers have now succeeded in formulating a mathematical result that provides an exact answer to the question of how chaos actually behaves. The researchers have analyzed chaotic states at the ...

As we celebrate the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology (IYQ) in 2025, we look back on a century of quantum mechanics—a field that has fundamentally changed the way we understand ...

Back in the dark days of the last century when I was a university undergraduate, chaos theory was my first love. Quantum mechanics was, to me, a mess of contradictions, but I felt like I might ...

“Does the flap of a butterfly’s wings in Brazil set off a tornado in Texas?” Might sound like the type of question posed by science fiction explorers to reveal the precarity of time travel, but in ...

The transition from orderly progress to chaotic wandering, as happens when a herd of sheep walk together into a pasture then disperse unpredictably, has been given a detailed mathematical description ...