TikTok's latest obsession is chaos theory but it's a little less complicated than it sounds. People are using the butterfly effect to make connections between personal and pop culture events. The ...

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, ...

You've probably heard of the ‘butterfly effect’ from the 2004 American sci-fi movie featuring young Ashton Kutcher. But the ...

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 ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Living in suburbia already has enough of a bum rap, but the lives of Evan Treborn (Ashton Kutcher ...

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, ...