Eliminating that excuse, or at least making it statistically implausible, is the idea behind this radioactively random dice roller. It comes to us from [Science Shack] and uses radioactive decay ...

Graph of count rate against time It is possible to find out the half-life of a radioactive substance from a graph of the count rate against time. The graph shows the decay curve for a radioactive ...

Hackers love random numbers, or more accurately ... you could check out some of the previous devices we’ve covered that used radioactive decay as an entropy source.

The film explores the concept of random events and their unpredictable nature, using examples such as radioactive decay and ...

Radioactive decay is a spontaneous and random process. A block of radioactive material will contain many trillions of nuclei and not all nuclei are likely to decay at the same time so it is ...