Physicists used quantum bits to achieve perfect randomness for the first time ever. The results of their research could ...

(Busà Photography/Moment/Getty Images) One of the hardest things to do in physics is to generate true, provably unpredictable ...

A truly random number is something that is surprisingly difficult to generate. A typical approach is to generate the required element of chance from a natural and unpredictable source, such as ...

What do you do, when you need a random number in your programming? The chances are that you reach for your environment’s function to do the job, usually something like rand() or similar. This returns ...

Fast randomness A diagram of the quantum random number generator on the photonic integrated chip. (Courtesy: Bing Bai and Yao Zheng) Smartphones could soon come equipped with a quantum-powered source ...