In the intricate architecture of plant tissues, beauty often emerges from chaos, according to new research from Cornell researchers. Findings from a recent study show how randomness and growth ...

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 ...

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, ...

Randomness is essential to some research, but it’s always been prohibitively complicated to achieve. Now, we can use “pseudorandomness” instead. Nothing is certain in the quantum realm. A particle, ...

Coin tosses aren't truly random. Lava lamps help secure the internet. And quantum physics might break encryption—or save it. This is what randomness really means, and why your digital life depends on ...

Electricity, water, gas – these are just some of the public utilities we use every day, whether for cooking food in the morning, heating homes throughout the day, or charging computers at night. But ...

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 ...

Excerpted from Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence by James Bridle. Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Copyright ...

“To swim against the current of human intuition is a difficult task. ... the human mind is built to identify for each event a definite cause and can, therefore, have a hard time accepting the ...