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

Scientists at NIST and the University of Colorado Boulder have created CURBy, a cutting-edge quantum randomness beacon that draws on the intrinsic unpredictability of quantum entanglement to produce ...

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

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

It’s one of those hidden-in-plain-sight rules of life: the opposite faces of standard dice always sum to seven. Six is opposite one; five is opposite two; three is opposite four. It’s just how ...

In other words, the reason that opposite faces of dice add to seven is – and basically always has been – “because we’ve always done it that way”.