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Chaos Researchers Can Now Predict Perilous Points of No Return

By Ben Brubaker
September 15, 2022
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A custom-built machine learning algorithm can predict when a complex system is about to switch to a wildly different mode of behavior.

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Hidden Chaos Found to Lurk in Ecosystems

By Joanna Thompson
July 27, 2022
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New research finds that chaos plays a bigger role in population dynamics than decades of ecological data seemed to suggest.

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Dennis Sullivan, Uniter of Topology and Chaos, Wins the Abel Prize

By Jordana Cepelewicz
March 23, 2022
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The American mathematician invented entire new ways to understand shapes and spaces.

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How We Can Make Sense of Chaos

By David S. Richeson
March 2, 2022
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Dynamical systems can be chaotic and impossible to predict, but mathematicians have discovered tools to help understand them.

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Work on Earth’s Climate and Other Complex Systems Earns Nobel Prize in Physics

By Natalie Wolchover
October 5, 2021
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Syukuro Manabe and Klaus Hasselmann have been honored for their work that led to reliable predictions of the effects of climate change. They will share the Nobel with Giorgio Parisi, who has made pioneering studies of chaotic physical systems.

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New Quantum Algorithms Finally Crack Nonlinear Equations

By Max G. Levy
January 5, 2021
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Two teams found different ways for quantum computers to process nonlinear systems by first disguising them as linear ones.

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The Hidden Heroines of Chaos

By Joshua Sokol
May 20, 2019
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Two women programmers played a pivotal role in the birth of chaos theory. Their previously untold story illustrates the changing status of computation in science.

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Machine Learning’s ‘Amazing’ Ability to Predict Chaos

By Natalie Wolchover
April 18, 2018
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In new computer experiments, artificial-intelligence algorithms can tell the future of chaotic systems.

ecology

A Twisted Path to Equation-Free Prediction

By Gabriel Popkin
October 13, 2015
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Complex natural systems defy analysis using a standard mathematical toolkit, so one ecologist is throwing out the equations.


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