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An international team of researchers has identified a quantum counterpart to Bayes’ rule. The likelihood you assign to an ...

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At just 25, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin applied quantum physics to a treasure trove of astronomical observations to show that stars are mostly hydrogen and helium.