Only Slate Plus members can gift Slate stories. Become a member to share 10 free articles a month. Excerpted from Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence by ...
Encryption systems rely on “random” numbers, but conventional computers can’t generate them perfectly. New research shows that quantum physics can. By Alexander Nazaryan Researchers in Switzerland ...
The static from a old radio is a form of random interference caused by electromagnetic activity in the atmosphere (Credit: Getty Images) Our world runs on randomly generated numbers and without them a ...
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