Using a tiny, acid-tolerant yeast, scientists have demonstrated a cost-effective way to make disposable diapers, ...

Max Verstappen was always going to have to change numbers for the 2026 season, after relinquishing his world title, but he will not be going back to #33. Instead, Verstappen will switch to #3, as he ...

Winning the lottery is a long shot at 1 in 292.2 million odds of taking home the jackpot, but maybe Santa will see how good we've been this year. Wednesday night's Powerball jackpot has now reached $1 ...

Lottery frenzy continues — just in time for the holiday season! Powerball reached $1 billion jackpot, and recently five Florida tickets from five drawings in less than a month got lucky. As they say ...

Edwin Castro of Altadena, California, holds the record for largest lottery winner ever with $2.04 billion Publix grocery store in Newnan, Georgia, sold a winning Mega Millions ticket worth $983 ...

Abstract: Quantum random number generators (QRNGs) are a burgeoning technology used for a variety of applications, including modern security and encryption systems. Typical methods exploit an entropy ...

PythoC lets you use Python as a C code generator, but with more features and flexibility than Cython provides. Here’s a first look at the new C code generator for Python. Python and C share more than ...

Eeny, meeny, miny, mo, catch a tiger by the toe – so the rhyme goes. But even children know that counting-out rhymes like this are no help at making a truly random choice. Perhaps you remember when ...

The Powerball winning numbers are in for the Wednesday, Dec. 3 drawing with a jackpot that reached an estimated $775 million ($362.5 million cash value). The largest winning Powerball jackpot ticket ...

The Powerball is played in 45 states, including Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky, and in Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. You do not have to be a U.S. citizen or U.S. resident to ...

No one won the Powerball jackpot in the Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2025, drawing. The winning numbers for Wednesday were 1, 14, 20, 46, 51, with a Powerball of 26. Three tickets sold in California, Florida, ...

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