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Randomness is incredibly useful. People often draw straws, throw dice or flip coins to make fair choices. Random numbers can enable auditors to make completely unbiased selections. Randomness is also ...

Even the most modern random number generators do not produce perfectly random numbers, which can be a problem for cryptographic applications. ETH Zurich researchers use entangled superconducting ...

How good are you at being random? Your unpredictability can aid a worldwide experiment Wednesday to test the laws of quantum mechanics. The "Big Bell Test," coordinated by The Institute of Photonic ...

(Busà Photography/Moment/Getty Images) One of the hardest things to do in physics is to generate true, provably unpredictable randomness. That's because it's impossible to determine randomness based ...