He invented a computer model that made it possible to measure human-induced climate change. He also helped break a color barrier in science. By Adam Nossiter Warren M. Washington, a scientist who ...

The Multisensory Correlation Detector (MCD) population model consists of elementary computational units (left), each of which responds to audiovisual transients (that is, changes in the input) that ...

Here’s one definition of science: it’s essentially an iterative process of building models with ever-greater explanatory power. A model is just an approximation or simplification of how we think the ...