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, ...

For example ... that the butterfly effect carries a sense of inevitability, as though every butterfly in the Amazon is triggering tornadoes in Texas with each flap of its wings.

The butterfly effect, a theory that's taken social media by storm, is being credited by many as the reason they've found ...

All of a sudden, customs duties and tariffs are global headlines. Who knew such a boring topic would play such an important ...

Study warns that climate change is rapidly shrinking mountain habitats, threatening two-thirds of butterfly species with extinction by 2070.

In the 1960s, meteorologist Edward Lorenz coined the term “The Butterfly Effect ... His famous example (less dystopian than mine) was of a butterfly flapping its wings in Brazil causing ...

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.

A new study warns that global climate change may have a devastating effect on butterflies, turning their species-rich, mountain habitats from refuges into traps. Think of it as the 'butterfly effect' ...