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 ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – A Knoxville stabbing may become the first case to test whether Tennessee juries can impose a death penalty or life without parole because of the “randomness” of the crime. The ...

When it comes to unpredictable strings of numbers, some are more random than others. Until now there has been no way to confirm 'true' randomness, leaving encryption techniques that rely on random ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I focus on the intersection of games and technology. Sep 06, 2012, 12:54pm EDT Sep 06, 2012, 02:31pm EDT This article is more than ...

Physicists have completed a study comparing the "randomness" in pi to that produced by random number generators. They have found that while sequences of digits from pi are indeed an acceptable ...