One of the pieces of equipment for the quantum random number generator in the NIST Boulder laboratories. Very little in this life is truly random. A coin flip is influenced by the flipper’s force, its ...

Ramy Shelbaya – co-founder and chief executive of UK firm Quantum Dice – talks to Anna Demming about how the company is using quantum mechanics to generate random numbers, and the challenges and ...

While world events are often difficult to predict, true randomness is surprisingly hard to find. In recent years, physicists have turned to quantum mechanics for a solution, using the inherently ...

In our digital world, where secure communications, fair elections, and reliable audits all depend on truly random numbers, researchers may have solved a persistent vulnerability: how to generate ...

Avi Wigderson, an award-winning computer scientist and mathematician, gave a lecture on “randomness” at Stony Brook ...

The 2023 Turing Award has been given to Avi Wigderson . The mathematician found that adding randomness into algorithms made them better at solving nondeterministic problems. When you purchase through ...

A new mathematical equation describes the distribution of different fragment sizes when an object breaks. Remarkably, the ...