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 ...

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

The outcome of quantum experiments is intrinsically unpredictable. Now physicists have combined that feature with blockchain ...

American physicists have combined quantum random bit generation technology with blockchain technology to create the most ...

Ultimately, the new approach works because of how it encodes information. Classical computers use bits, which can take one of ...

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

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.

As quantum computing develops, scientists are working to identify tasks for which quantum computers have a clear advantage ...

IBM unveiled plans for the world’s first large-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computer, with scalable quantum computing.