A new AI developed at Duke University can uncover simple, readable rules behind extremely complex systems. It studies how ...

It's that point when a smooth river turns into a tumultuous swirl of white water, the tornado that unpredictably changes course on a dime or the wild interactions of three planets under one another's ...

Jeff Goldblum’s character (the lovable bachelor in distress) in Jurassic Park brought about public awareness to the general concept of chaos theory. This strange branch of mathematics deals with ...

A theoretical breakthrough in understanding quantum chaos could open new paths into researching quantum information and quantum computing, many-body physics, black holes, and the still-elusive quantum ...

Chaos evokes images of the dinosaurs running wild in Jurassic Park, or my friend’s toddler ravaging the living room. In a chaotic world, you never know what to expect. Stuff is happening all the time, ...

Editor's Note: This article was provided by The Conversation. The original is here. Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones … Nature exhibits not simply a higher degree but an altogether ...

I try to avoid pop psychology books these days. Who has the stomach any more for just-so stories supported by a handful of poorly done psychology studies that start with low external validity and end ...

NEW YORK — It's not every day that a gala event is devoted to the celebration of math, but that's exactly what happened Tuesday night (Oct. 14), when actor Alan Alda and mathematician Steve Strogatz ...