FIG. 1. (a) The attractor of the Ikeda map and a partial trajectory. States colored blue (orange) are measured as outcome A (B). The proposed method optimizes the measurement of a chaotic system using ...

Plumbing a 90 million-year-old layer cake of sedimentary rock in Colorado, a team of scientists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Northwestern University has found evidence confirming a ...

Predicting complex systems like the weather is famously difficult. But at least the weather’s governing equations don’t change from one day to the next. In contrast, certain complex systems can ...

For better or worse, a lot of human technology is confined to fewer dimensions than the three we can theoretically move about in. Cars and trains only travel two dimensionally with limited exceptions, ...