Flipping a coin may not be the fairest way to settle disputes. About a decade ago, statistician Persi Diaconis started to wonder if the outcome of a coin flip really is just a matter of chance. He had ...

toss '', which involves flipping a coin and guessing which side it is, is sometimes used to randomly select one of two options. However, when an international research team analyzed the results of ...

Flip a coin 100 times and you'll get roughly as many heads as tails. But computers often stumble at generating random numbers - and now researchers have figured out why 1. Random-number generators are ...

Many people fervently believe that coin tosses are random. The Indian men’s test cricket team captain Shubman Gill lost all five of his tosses against England this summer. The probability of such an ...