In any biological system, if you put a living organism into an environment where it can thrive, with unlimited resources and no predators or competitors, it will always grow in the same fashion: ...

For the last couple of years, coronavirus has been teaching a master class on exponential growth: from January 2020, when 100 cases in China led the WHO to call a public health emergency, to today, ...

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Just when you caught your breath, a new era is emerging—one that transcends the familiar bounds of exponential growth to venture into the breathless territories of super-exponential acceleration. This ...

The number of coronavirus deaths in the United States rose from 1 to 100 in a little more than two weeks. About a week later, the number skyrocketed to 1,000. Those numbers are tragic. For many people ...

The explosive spread of coronavirus can be turned to our advantage, two infectious disease experts argue: “But only if we intervene early. That means now.” By Siobhan Roberts In early December, Britta ...

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