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

God, Albert Einstein famously declared, does not play dice. It’s a pithy statement, but a revealing one: to the famously ...

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.

Randomness is incredibly useful. People often draw straws, throw dice or flip coins to make fair choices. Random numbers can ...

Programmers might reach for a rand() function of some sort, but these pseudorandom numbers don’t cut the mustard for encryption. For that you’ll need a true random number generator (RNG), and ...

A new network paradigm can generate meaningfully random numbers ... at least one of the numbers. But prime numbers are predictable, and scientists push our growing list of primes into new ...

Scientists built the fastest quantum random number generator, creating truly random numbers using light from atoms, boosting ...

“They do this by following rules and relying on algorithms ... Random Number Generators” or “True Random Number Generators” – they depend on physical observations of natural phenomena to ...

Programmers might reach for a rand() function of some sort, but these pseudorandom numbers don’t cut the mustard for encryption. For that you’ll need a true random number generator (RNG), and ...