They say that when a butterfly flaps their wings, it can change the weather on the other side of the world. But what happens when butterflies die out? The number of butterflies in the U.S. has ...

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, ...

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 ...

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.

Painted ladies are the ultramarathoners of the butterfly world—even more so than monarchs. Scientists have long known about ...

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

Insects also have wings which some of them use to fly with. Look at this pretty butterfly flapping its wings and flying along. Butterflies and moths are some of the most colourful insects of all.

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 ...