Rivers are rarely the calm, orderly streams we imagine on maps. Over time, their winding paths—called meanders—shift, bend, ...

Some materials behave unexpectedly. They crack differently than expected, or react in ways that are hard to explain. The ...

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An agency has warned that extreme weather "chaos" will hit soon as the climate swings wildly.

Physical scientists seem to find the phenomenon of chaos everywhere: in the orbits of planets, in weather systems, in a river’s swirling eddies. For nearly three decades, ecologists considered chaos ...

Short-lived species, such as market squid, are more likely to show chaotic population dynamics than longer-lived species. (Getty Images) Chaos in natural populations appears to be much more common ...

Since President Donald Trump took office a few weeks ago, the administration’s frenetic activity, which has included withdrawing from global agreements and slashing slashing federal jobs and funding, ...