Very little in this life is truly random. A coin flip is influenced by the flipper’s force, its surrounding airflow, and ...

At the dawn of computing, women were the early adopters of computational technology, working with punch cards in what was then considered secretarial work. As computer science evolved into a ...

From jury duty to tax audits, randomness plays a big role. Scientists used quantum physics to build a system that ensures those number draws can’t be gamed.

Developmental and synthetic biologist Michael Levin redefines what life really is, how intelligence works, and what the ...

Scientists have built the first ever traceable and certifiable random number generator that uses quantum entanglement.

A pair of stars orbiting one another has been found near the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* using the European ...

Binary neutron star mergers, cosmic collisions between two very dense stellar remnants made up predominantly of neutrons, ...

To a programmer, code can seem a “domain of sorcery” in which strings of characters have power in the real world.

Imagine a computer that does not rely only on electronics but uses light to perform tasks faster and more efficiently. A ...

Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder, Colorado, have upgraded their previously ...

“I teach computer science, and that is all,” wrote Boaz Barak, of Harvard University, in a recent op-ed in The New York Times ...

With a record number of nearly 500 nominees, finding the top 50 most influential people in UK IT is a mammoth task, with so ...