I am not going to try and even surprise you with this. Notice the "tools:". This post is not about physics really, but something used in physics. When I get enough of these, I will put them ...

Last month in Points of Significance, we showed how samples are used to estimate population statistics. We emphasized that, because of chance, our estimates had an uncertainty. This month we focus ...

Bar charts and box plots are omnipresent in the scientific literature. They are typically used to visualize quantities associated with a set of items. Representing the data accurately, however ...