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 ...

Eric Walden makes a lot of school visits near the end of the academic year, just as the weather turns warmer and the promise of summer vacation beckons. That’s when the kids in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Districts want to mimic the in-school experience with online learning this fall -- a stark difference from the plans hastily put together in the spring. When Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine ...

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 ...

The Los Angeles Unified School District has had months to fine-tune its “Acceleration Days” initiative to help students make up some of the academic progress lost during the pandemic school shutdowns.