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, ...

Plus, relationship therapists share how the trend can be a tool for mindfulness Leave it to TikTok to take an abstract philosophy, spread it across the app, and use it as evidence for how they ...

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 ...

A new study warns that global climate change may have a devastating effect on butterflies, turning their species-rich, mountain habitats from refuges into traps. Think of it as the 'butterfly effect' ...

Just as the flap of a butterfly’s wings can theoretically influence the course of a hurricane, the tiny choices you make in your relationship can shape its destiny. The butterfly effect, a concept ...

Small changes can have incredibly large and unintended consequences, whether for good or for ill. And no matter how smart you ...

The butterfly effect may even be the source of the compounding impact connected to increasing wealth.(Photo by Tezos on Unsplash ) The butterfly effect, also known as the ripple effect or the chaos ...

Aya Tsintziras is a freelance writer who writes about TV, movies, and has a particular interest in the horror genre. She has a Political Science degree from the University of Toronto and a Masters of ...

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, ...