In inpatient child psychology, we treat children in crisis deemed at imminent risk of harm to themselves or others. I am grateful for the opportunity to try and help — but it is daunting. A study ...

Mitchell Newberry is an assistant professor of complex systems at the University of Michigan. This story originally featured on The Conversation. Chaos evokes images of the dinosaurs running wild in ...

One of the particles acts as a thermometer and the whole system is simulated on the computer. Credit: TU Wien One of the particles acts as a thermometer and the whole system is simulated on the ...

Dynamical systems and chaos theory provide a rigorous mathematical framework to describe, analyse and predict the evolution of systems over time. These fields study how simple deterministic rules can ...

Most references to chaos theory center on the seeming fragility of order in complex systems—the butterfly effect. As popularized by storytellers, rather than scientists, the big takeaway from chaos ...