Although mutations, the driver of evolution, occur at random, a study of the bacterium Escherichia coli reveals that nature often finds the same solution to the same problem again and again. Over time ...

Mitchell Newberry is an assistant professor of complex systems at the University of Michigan. This story originally featured on The Conversation. Chaos evokes images of the dinosaurs running wild in ...

The film explores the concept of random events and their unpredictable nature, using examples such as radioactive decay and marble distributions to illustrate how large numbers of random occurrences ...

In 2019, the "blockchain bandits" were able to steal over $54 million in cryptocurrency thanks to the predictability of "random" number generation. While the probability of guessing a randomly ...

"We're trying to block the surveillance cycle" by making patrols less predictable. Randomness isn't easy. Even when they want to be unpredictable, people follow patterns. That's why the folks at LAX ...

Kathy Sierra recently hit on one of the themes of this blog which is "randomness". She notes that adding randomness to your product or service can be a wonderful idea. Products should be neither fully ...

Predictability is reassuring. It’s also boring. Think about it—when did you last you call IHOP to see if they still served pancakes? Or had any doubts whether the fall TV lineup would include a ...

Ask a computer to pick a random number and you’ll probably get a response that isn’t completely unpredictable. Because they are deterministic automatons, computers struggle to generate numbers that ...