Engineers use feedback loops — typically negative feedback is more useful, but positive feedback is needed for oscillators.

Pandemics and climate change share the property of being driven by positive feedback loops. For pandemics, the more people who acquire a disease, the more people who are exposed to the disease, the ...

“The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.” – Arthur C. Clarke Even worse: some of these laws go back decades with little to no effort to improve ...

In football, defense keeps the opposing team in check. A similar strategy is at play inside our cells. Negative feedback loops (NFLs) help regulate how cells respond to signals, for example, dialing ...

It’s easy to dwell on the difficulty and pain of recovery from an eating disorder. But it’s important to attend to the beauty of it too. One of the forms of beauty involved in restoring yourself to ...