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.

NIST’s CURBy beacon transforms quantum “spooky action” into certified random numbers, guarded by a blockchain-like Twine ...

Very little in this life is truly random. A coin flip is influenced by the flipper’s force, its surrounding airflow, and gravity. Similar variables dictate rolling a pair of dice or shuffling a deck ...

NIST performed one of the first complete experimental Bell tests in 2015, which firmly established that quantum mechanics is truly random. In 2018, NIST pioneered methods to use these Bell tests ...

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Those almost certainly come from quantum physics. Harness those edge correlations, and “you can turn that into the best random number generator that the universe allows,” Shalm said. But here’s a ...

The whole process is open source and available to the public, allowing anyone to not only check their work, but even build on the beacon to create their own random number generator. Gautam A. Kavuri ...