I’ve worded the paper’s conclusion carefully, following the lead of Chilton and Levy. Their paper, posted at SSRN in November and entitled, “Challenging the Randomness of Panel Assignment in 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, ...

The blast waves formed by disturbing the surrounding media after the detonation of explosives can cause serious harm to people and objects. This shows that blast waves are the essential manifestation ...

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 ...

Researchers from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences revealed that not all forms of quantum nonlocality guarantee intrinsic randomness. They ...

From coin flips to river levels to the placement of freckles, many events appear random at first glance—but dig a little deeper, and limits to the chaos start to emerge. Mathematician Michel Talagrand ...