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 ...

BBC Children’s has ordered a microdrama spin-off from Canadian live-action drama series The Next Step as part of its first slate of YouTube‑first commissions. The Next Step, which first aired on CBBC ...

Actress Sally Bretton has become a household name for her portrayal of Martha Lloyd in the BBC crime drama. She initially joined the Death in Paradise universe in 2016, appearing on the fictional ...

There are several reasons you might have landed on this article. Maybe you're a passenger on a long road trip, tasked with keeping everyone entertained. Perhaps you're preparing for a trivia night at ...

White working-class girls are being overlooked in efforts to tackle underachievement in schools across England, education leaders have said. Since 2019, the number of low-income, white British girls ...

A man with no troubling symptoms was only found to have lung cancer after he was offered a test under a specialist NHS screening programme. Gordon Darnell, now 72, said he was diagnosed on Christmas ...

If you’ve been to Random Sample to see an art exhibition, or watch a live band, or even participate in a book club, you know just where to find its original home. It’s a white cinderblock building ...

It's not feasible to contact every member of the population, so only a sample, or a subset, of that population is included when conducting statistical research. The assumption is that the sample is ...

Attention audiophiles: the archive of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop is being made available to the public for the first name. This department was founded in the 1950s as a laboratory that could invent ...

The BBC Radiophonic Workshop’s massive archive of experimental music has been turned into a downloadable library. The BBC Radiophonic Workshop’s massive archive of experimental music has been turned ...

One of the key goals within the field of quantum computing is to achieve what is known as a quantum advantage. This term essentially describes the point after which a quantum computer can outperform a ...