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From jury duty to tax audits, randomness plays a big role. Scientists used quantum physics to build a system that ensures those number draws can’t be gamed.

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Developmental and synthetic biologist Michael Levin redefines what life really is, how intelligence works, and what the ...

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A pair of stars orbiting one another has been found near the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* using the European ...

To a programmer, code can seem a “domain of sorcery” in which strings of characters have power in the real world.

Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder, Colorado, have upgraded their previously ...

“I teach computer science, and that is all,” wrote Boaz Barak, of Harvard University, in a recent op-ed in The New York Times ...

With a record number of nearly 500 nominees, finding the top 50 most influential people in UK IT is a mammoth task, with so ...