Look, I hate to bring this up, but there’s something we need to discuss: Why haven’t I heard from you recently? (No, not you, you’ve been in touch. It’s this ...

You indirectly use random numbers online every day—to establish secure connections, to encrypt data, perhaps even to satisfy your gambling problem. But their ubiquity belies the fact that they’re ...

As it turns out, there are many uses for randomness in scientific analyses (as well as everyday applications). For example, scientists often use random number generators to create mock data ...

MADS Haahr is in no doubt. “Generating randomness is not a task that should be left to humans,” he says. You might expect him to say that. A computer scientist at Trinity College Dublin, he is the ...