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

Random numbers can enable auditors to make completely unbiased selections. Randomness is also key in security; if a password or code is an unguessable string of numbers, it's harder to crack.

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.

Scientists with NIST and the University of Colorado Boulder developed CURBy, a system that can verify the randomness of strings of numbers, which will add more protection to encrypted data in the ...

CURBy produces random numbers automatically and broadcasts them daily through a website for anyone to use. At the heart of this service is the NIST-run Bell test, which provides truly random results.

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 ...

Dubbed CURBy, the Colorado University Randomness Beacon produces random numbers on a publicly available website. The randomness can be verified, traced and certified through the team’s implementation ...

No one from Dorset won a £1 million prize, but one person won £100,000. The individual had the bond number 582EZ788145 and had £50,000 invested. The overall total won by Dorset residents in July 2025 ...

On page 728 of this issue, Atsushi Uchida and co-workers introduce a novel technique for generating random numbers at unprecedented rates (1.7 Gbit s −1) using chaotic dynamics in laser systems 1.

As a UK49s player, you know that winning combines strategy, luck, and timing. Many believe that analyzing past results gives ...

And now, in a rather poetic twist, it may be about to revolutionize dice throws. “The unpredictability of random numbers is fundamental to both digital security and applications that fairly distribute ...