For the first time, researchers in China have accurately quantified how chaos increases in a quantum many-body system as it evolves over time. Combining experiments and theory, a team led by Yu-Chen ...

The sandy-bottomed puddle in a tent on the Natural History Museum's front lawn in London does not look the most alluring of aphrodisiacs. But this shallow pool filled with an elixir of water, salts ...

My wife wanted to plan a week of dinners but I preferred to leave room for disorder. Mathematical thinking helped us combine our different approaches to life In the black and white yin-yang symbol of ...

You wake up, hit snooze, scroll for five minutes (okay, twenty), and suddenly you’re late. Harmless, right? Or—according to ...

The 2004 film The Butterfly Effect was bad, but its badness wasn’t just a product of Ashton Kutcher’s horrible performance, Amy Smart’s scenery chewing, or director Eric Bress’s bruised pallet. The ...

Chris is the former Editor of Pocket-lint. He has been a technology journalist since 2008 and has covered the rise of Android and reviewed just about every important device along the way. Chris lives ...

Yale researchers believe some antibodies associated with lupus may be sources of both chaos and hope in cancer. Borrowing from the Greek legend of Pandora’s box and chaos theory by calling it the ...

Decades of global research have sparked the big question: can we really control the weather? According to a study published today in the journal Nonlinear Processes of Geophysics, this may soon be our ...

To succeed in social media, you need to stop worrying and learn to love chaos, writes Annie Robinson. Chaos Theory studies the effect of complex systems – those that are nonlinear and subject to many ...