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, ...

This surgery was a total metamorphosis! An injured monarch butterfly with a ripped-off wing is able to fly again thanks to a first-of-its kind transplant at a nature preserve on Long Island. The ...

RIT researchers publish a paper in Nature Scientific Reports on a new tree-based machine learning algorithm used to predict chaos.

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What started as a brainy concept from chaos theory is now the internet’s latest obsession. The butterfly effect — the idea that one tiny action can set off a chain of massive, unpredictable ...

A rare butterfly-shaped crater spreads across Mars' northern plains. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Breaking space news, the ...

Every winter, a marvelous spectacle occurs as hundreds of thousands of butterflies travel south across Taiwan in one of the world’s most rare migrations.