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 ...

Half a century ago, the pioneers of chaos theory discovered that the “butterfly effect” makes long-term prediction impossible. Even the smallest perturbation to a complex system (like the weather, the ...

Imagine a school without walls, textbooks or teachers, where children are inspired to learn by their own sense of wonder. That’s what Sugata Mitra dreamt when he first placed a computer into a hole in ...