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

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 ...

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 ...

NIST and its partners, including researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder, have built the first random number generator that uses quantum entanglement to produce verifiable random numbers ...

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 ...

A team including CU PREP researchers and scientists from CU Boulder and NIST have built the first random number generator using quantum entanglement to produce verifiable random numbers. The group ...

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 ...

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 ...

Eshan Chattopadhyay, an Associate Professor at Cornell University, has been awarded the 2025 Godel Prize for his groundbreaking solution to a decades- ...