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.

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

In fact, NIST researchers used exactly this technique to generate certifiably random numbers back in 2018. “Our quantum source and protocol is like a fail-safe,” NIST mathematician Peter Bierhorst ...

While randomising a deck of cards gets more difficult as you add more cards, it turns out that the same isn't true for the ...

Here we use cryogenic electron microscopy to determine the structure of TbAQP2 from Trypanosoma brucei, bound to either the substrate glycerol or to the sleeping sickness drugs, pentamidine or ...