Chaos, as a research area, investigates the behavior of deterministic nonlinear dynamical systems that exhibit sensitive dependence on initial conditions, leading to aperiodic, seemingly random evolution in phase space despite underlying determinism. It encompasses the study of strange attractors, bifurcation structures, Lyapunov exponents, fractal dimensions, and invariant measures, with applications across physics, chemistry, biology, engineering, and economics. Research in chaos focuses on rigorous characterization of chaotic regimes, routes to chaos (such as period-doubling and intermittency), control and synchronization of chaotic systems, and numerical and analytical methods for modeling, predicting, and quantifying complex spatiotemporal dynamics.
With AI, it's now possible for researchers to predict the three-dimensional structures of proteins directly from their amino-acid sequences. But what biologists really want to predict, says Columbia biophysicist Hashim Al-Hashimi, ...
Molecular & Computational biology
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Preserving quantum information is key to developing useful quantum computing systems. But interacting quantum systems are chaotic and follow laws of thermodynamics, eventually leading to information loss. Physicists have ...
Quantum Physics
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As concerns rise about the effects of tiny plastic particles on human health, Flinders University researchers have led new research on whether nanoplastics can accumulate or cause damage in kidneys—our body's major blood ...
Bio & Medicine
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The potential of microrobots is enormous. These miniature objects can be designed to carry out actions within the body, such as sensing biomarkers, manipulating objects like blood clots, or delivering drug therapies to tumor ...
Bio & Medicine
Feb 2, 2026
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Encapsulated microbubbles (EMBs), tiny gas-filled bubbles coated in lipid or protein shells, play a central role in biomedical ultrasound. When exposed to ultrasound waves, EMBs contract, resulting in oscillations that enhance ...
Soft Matter
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When people think of high-powered machines, they'd likely think of muscle cars before their own muscles. But muscles and other living tissues can do energetic things very quickly—they twitch, snap and beat—which is how physics ...
General Physics
Dec 16, 2025
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Financial markets are often seen as chaotic and unpredictable. Every day, traders around the world buy shares and sell assets in a whirlwind of activity. It looks like a system of total randomness—but is it really?
What if your conscious experiences were not just the chatter of neurons, but were connected to the hum of the universe? In a paper published in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, I present new evidence indicating that conscious ...
The ocean is saturated with microplastics. While we know the location of the great garbage patches, where plastic particles may accumulate below the ocean surface remains unknown. The vastness of the ocean means particle ...
Earth Sciences
Dec 9, 2025
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A collaborative research team from the Institute of Solid State Physics, the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, has discovered a high-energy-density barocaloric effect in the plastic ...
Condensed Matter
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