Visiting Assistant Professor Behrang Forghani’s area of expertise is the science of randomness. But there’s nothing random about the mathematician’s recent success in securing a $30,000 grant from the ...

Much like playing a game of Monopoly, a recent study from Tufts University finds that when people are more wealthy, it’s because they’re lucky — a result of just pure randomness. The study’s findings, ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – If you wanted a random number, historically you could do worse than to pick a sequence from the string of digits in pi. But Purdue University scientists now say other sources ...

A team of researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has achieved a milestone in quantum technologies, demonstrating for the first time the control of quantum randomness. The team of ...

Rabih Alameddine, who won the National Book Award last month, has described his idiosyncratic approach as “childish ...

The shift from H-1B lottery to a wage-weighted system corrects inefficiencies, rewarding education quality and genuine skills ...

n many ways, nature and biology – and the way they affect our lives, from ruinous natural disasters to disease-causing viruses – appear to operate randomly. But when we think of the scientists who ...

Games have used chance since the first roll of dice. Whether someone spins a colorful slot reel or opens a loot box, the next outcome is always unknown. From board games to modern phone apps, chance ...

Physicists in China have brought one of Einstein’s thought experiments into reality—but not quite with the outcome he hoped ...