The popular concept has been depicted in everything from film to social media testimonials, but the real science behind the ...

Put another way, in the "butterfly effect," an insect can flap its wings and create a microscopic change in initial conditions that leads to a hurricane halfway around the world. This chaos is ...

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Think of a monarch butterfly, and a distinctive image pops up: black-and-orange wings, with a sprinkling of white spots around the black edges. Those white spots may actually help monarchs ...

“The flapping of the wings of a butterfly can be felt on the other side of the world”, goes a Chinese proverb. Ponder the unstated coincidence between what some analysts see as terse greetings ...

that posits even seemingly tiny changes – like a butterfly flapping its wings – can trigger a chain of events that produces huge impacts. Because it has become so difficult for either party to ...

Maybe, just maybe, this is the one thing Americans can all agree on: our fate shouldn't rest on a butterfly's wings. Matt Robison is a writer, podcast host, and former congressional staffer.