Sensory system description and analysis have traditionally used the notion of a 'receptive field,' which is defined as the stimulus range that can be detected at any particular stage of processing. In ...

We obviously can’t put the universe on a giant set of scales, but scientists have found astonishingly clever ways to […] ...

A team of international physicists has brought Bayes’ centuries-old probability rule into the quantum world. By applying the “principle of minimum change” — updating beliefs as little as possible ...

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Physics is the search for and application of rules that can help us understand and predict the world around us. Central to physics are ideas such as energy, mass, particles and waves. Physics attempts ...