George Pólya’s random walk theorem absolved him of being a lurker and revealed how the laws of chance interact with physical ...

Eeny, meeny, miny, mo, catch a tiger by the toe – so the rhyme goes. But even children know that counting-out rhymes like this are no help at making a truly random choice. Perhaps you remember when ...

Thinking about buying a Powerball ticket? Winning the lottery is a long shot at 1 in 292.2 million odds of taking home the jackpot. But for $2 a drawing, maybe it's worth a try. You might have your ...

Adding numbers to your passwords makes them more secure. In fact, most sites and services these days require alphanumeric passwords at the very least. Some people ...

Chip-based device paves the way for scalable and secure random number generation, an essential building block for future digital infrastructure Chip-based device paves the way for scalable and secure ...

Researchers have developed a chip-based quantum random number generator that provides high-speed, high-quality operation on a miniaturized platform. This advance could help move quantum random number ...

Abstract: A 2.4-Gb/s and 1.9-fJ/bit true random number generator (TRNG) featuring a novel entropy source is presented. The proposed nested chaotic oscillator (NCO) leverages the chaotic behavior of ...

Iowa State Cyclones quarterback Rocco Becht during the football team’s media day at Jack Trice Stadium in Ames, Iowa, on Friday, July 25, 2025. Becht, a redshirt junior, threw for 3,505 yards and 25 ...

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Scientists at NIST and the University of Colorado Boulder have created CURBy, a cutting-edge quantum randomness beacon that draws on the intrinsic unpredictability of quantum entanglement to produce ...

Abstract: This brief presents a novel lightweight and energy-efficient true random number generator (TRNG). In contrast to traditional discrete chaos-based TRNGs, the proposed design employs a source ...