When you fire up Minecraft's latest snapshot, you'll be treated to a new cubemap gently revolving behind the sandbox game's main menu. It's a big, wide open scene from the upcoming Caves and Cliffs: ...

The quest for truly random numbers is something to which scientists and engineers have devoted a lot of time and effort. The trick is to find an unpredictable source of naturally occurring noise that ...

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 ...

We carried out a design comparison as soon as the new look was revealed but as a speedy reminder: gangly legs, tiny eyes, teeth. Ringing any bells? We still don't know quite what a live-action ...

A quantum random-number generator has been developed that uses classical cryptography to certify that its output was produced by a quantum process. A truly random number is generated by a process ...

Many popular random number generators (RNGs) are based on classical computer algorithms and have the advantage of being fast and easy to implement. The best examples pass many statistical tests ...

Using a single, chip-scale laser, scientists have managed to generate streams of completely random numbers at about 100 times the speed of the fastest random-numbers generator systems that are ...