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Published online 1 May 2000 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news000504-3
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Engineers of chaos
Keeping chaos under control is easier than you might think, Phillip Ball discovers.
Most of us spend our lives struggling to avoid chaos, but a little of it can be no bad thing. Physicists now appreciate that intrinsically chaotic systems can be useful, provided that the chaos can be limited.
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