Science news articles about 'chaos'

... .com) -- Historically, U.S. children have experienced chaos for decades due to the nation's high rates ... , poverty, and maternal and child mortality. But today, chaos in children's lives is largely on the family level ...

... by quantum physics, it's not unreasonable to assume that if one can apply chaos theory in a meaningful way to quantum systems ... that eventually build into a tornado in Texas. Saam says chaos theory can make predictions about extremely complex ...

... more than that, according to MIT mathematicians who say the "fluid trampoline" is the simplest fluid example of chaos theory ever explored ...

... evidence that the human brain lives "on the edge of chaos", at a critical transition point between randomness and order ... dynamics exist at a critical point on the edge of chaos. According to Kitzbichler, this new evidence is only a starting point ...

... and even the stock market. Scientists who study "chaos" - which they define as extreme sensitivity to infinitesimally small ... parts," he said. Theorists have speculated that the onset of chaos will greatly increase the degree to which different parts ...

Relief supplies are coming into quake-struck Haiti without people knowing. Coordination seems missing. A United Nations official is calling it "chaos." All this while victims aren't being helped.

... . The secret of its functioning lies in the so-called "chaos control". If uncontrolled, the CPG produces a chaotic ...

A new study turns to chaos theory to explain why some Hollywood films are so engaging -- and why your attention wanders during others.

... and crash programs. It is not so different from the classic chaos problem in which a butterfly flaps its wings in one place ...

... PhysOrg.com) -- Chaos theory could hold the key to making the in-situ leaching process a more effective ...

Political and social chaos and a lack of international protections have put several species of rosewood trees ...

Political and social chaos and a lack of international protections have put several species of rosewood trees ...

... electrical rhythms of the heart, say researchers in the journal CHAOS, which is published by the American Institute of Physics. In recent ... chaotic behavior in space over time. The resulting chaos may have a unique origin, which has not yet been identified. -- VC ...

... ," Froyland says. In the American Institute of Physics' journal CHAOS, Froyland and his research team, including ...

Doctors in Birmingham, Ala., experience "controlled chaos" while treating thousands of wounded patients after tornadoes swept through the area. Dean Reynolds reports.