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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 ...

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Backtests often look far better on paper than they do in live markets. The usual reason is not that the idea was completely wrong. It is that the strategy was tuned too closely to the past, then ...

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More than 100 years ago Hungarian-born mathematician George Pólya found himself trapped in a loop of social awkwardness. A professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, he enjoyed ...

I’m not sure there’s a person in the world who could scroll past a short video of a man calmly letting a 20-foot python slither across a grassy park without stopping. The snake is enormous, thicker ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Reticulated pythons are the longest snakes in the world, capable of reaching 20 feet or more and weighing well over 200 pounds.