A newly-developed cipher could finally shine light on how the strange text of the Voynich manuscript was devised.
A unique cipher that uses playing cards and dice to turn languages into glyphs produces text eerily similar to the glyphs in ...
Every mysterious symbol reliably matched Hebrew characters, according to researcher Emmanuel Oliveiro of the University of ...
Leave this field empty if you’re human: In 2021, four boys transferred from private schools into Lesli Tompkins’s fourth-grade classroom at J.V. Forrestal Elementary in Beacon. They were “brilliant ...
“Curiosity drives scientific breakthroughs, and the tools we create often reflect the human motivations behind that curiosity.” For Yansen Wang, a senior researcher at Microsoft Research Asia, this ...
Think you’ve got what it takes to master tricky word challenges? Welcome to Part 2 of our ‘unscramble the word’ quiz! In this round, you’ll face 28 tricky scrambled words…All presented as mixed-up ...
A research team led by the A*STAR Genome Institute of Singapore (A*STAR GIS) have developed a method to accurately and efficiently read DNA containing non-standard bases — a task once thought too ...
Secret encrypted letters written by Mary, Queen of Scots during her imprisonment in England have been decoded. Having been arrested and charged for plotting to murder her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I, on ...
And we are baaaack with Part 2 of “Guess the City From The Shuffled Letters.” We’ve prepared a brand-new batch, with 29 cities from all around the world. Some will be obvious, while others might have ...
Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, according to recent reports by the International Association of Genocide Scholars and a UN commission.