In a first, physicists have directly seen Hofstadter’s butterfly—a long-sought-after fractal in the quantum realm ...

Mountaintops host some of the world's most diverse butterfly species, but climate change could transform these habitats into ...

Think of it as the "butterfly effect"—the idea that something as small as the flapping of a butterfly's wings can eventually lead to a major event such as a hurricane—in reverse. The new study, ...

But butterfly wings are flat ... Butterflies are less efficient fliers than birds, flapping their wings at a greater angle into the oncoming air and producing much more drag per unit of lift.

In Brazil, a butterfly flaps its wings, setting off a chain of events that ends with a tornado in Texas. 1 In layman's terms, chaos theory states that the most unpredictable and seemingly ...

Birds possess strong wings made of bone and muscle, covered with overlapping feathers, and they use powerful muscles to flap their wings. Bats, which are small and furry, have wings similar to ...

The Guardian's media editor, Jim Waterson, explores how different the world would look were it not for the occasional, well-timed flap of a butterfly's wings.

Teleconnections in our atmosphere allow conditions in one part of the world to affect weather patterns thousands of kilometres away ...