Many of us like to think that we’re fairly smart. But it can be a very humbling experience when you’re in the presence of ...

Security experts have helped remove malicious NuGet packages planted in 2023 that were designed to destroy systems years in advance, with some payloads not due to hit until the latter part of this ...

It came from the constellation Sagittarius, precisely where astronomers were hoping to find something unusual. Even more striking, the signal arrived at 1420 megahertz, the frequency of hydrogen, the ...

Scientists at NIST and the University of Colorado Boulder have created CURBy, a cutting-edge quantum randomness beacon that draws on the intrinsic unpredictability of quantum entanglement to produce ...

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Introduction: Accurately predicting the remaining mechanical equipment is of great significance for ensuring the safe operation of the equipment and improving economic efficiency. Methods: To ...

Will a certain tritium atom decay by a certain time? According to our current science, this question concerning physical phenomena should be answered by sampling from a probability distribution, a ...

A mathematician who developed formulas to make random processes more predictable and helped to solve an iconic model of complex phenomena has won the 2024 Abel Prize, one of the field’s most coveted ...

Random processes take place all around us. It rains one day but not the next; stocks and bonds gain and lose value; traffic jams coalesce and disappear. Because they’re governed by numerous factors ...

Michel Talagrand of France has credited a brush with blindness for leading to the work that resulted in his recognition by the math equivalent of the Nobel Prize. By Kenneth Chang Kenneth Chang has ...