Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. TikTok's latest obsession is chaos theory but it's a little less complicated than it sounds. People are using the butterfly effect ...

Small changes can have incredibly large and unintended consequences, whether for good or for ill. And no matter how smart you (think you) are, there’s absolutely no way that you can predict all of the ...

In 1972, the US meteorologist Edward Lorenz asked a now-famous question: "Does the flap of a butterfly's wings in Brazil set off a tornado in Texas?" The image of the tiny flapping butterfly has come ...