What started as a brainy concept from chaos theory is now the internet’s latest obsession. The butterfly effect — the idea that one tiny action can set off a chain of massive, unpredictable ...

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, ...

Recently scientists discovered that trauma is passed on from one generation to the next not only psychologically but also physiologically, an invaluable, but depressing, discovery, which means trauma, ...

In science, there has been a concept called the "butterfly effect" for many decades - when a completely random and seemingly insignificant impact as a result of subsequent situations has a key ...

What Is the Butterfly Effect, Really? You’ve probably heard the phrase: A butterfly flaps its wings in Brazil and sets off a tornado in Texas. It sounds poetic—and it is. But behind that image is a ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Design by Evelyn Mousigian Picture a monarch butterfly soaring over the still, blue waters of the ...

The Butterfly Effect may not go down as one of sci-fi’s most impactful and intense tragedies of circumstance, but it deserves better than the critical drubbing it received in 2004. Today, free of the ...

We make countless choices every single day, from the mundane to the life-altering. What to eat, what to wear, whether to swipe right on a dating app—these decisions, big and small, ripple through our ...