The Voynich manuscript—a mysterious medieval book that has defied translation for centuries—may have been created using a special code developed with the help of cards and dice, a new study suggests.

The year was 1637, and Georg Baresch, an alchemist and renowned collector of antiquities based in Prague, had a baffling mystery on his hands. For years now, he had been in possession of a most ...

A language scholar has solved one of the longstanding riddles involving the enigmatic Dead Sea Scrolls, after finally deciphering a hidden script within the texts that has long perplexed researchers.

The Python Software Foundation has rejected a $1.5 million government grant because of anti-DEI requirements imposed by the Trump administration, the nonprofit said in a blog post yesterday. The grant ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Kryptos sculpture sits in front of the CIA headquarters in Virginia. (Carol M. Highsmith/Buyenlarge/Getty Images) The ...

The 35-year-old saga of Kryptos, an enigmatic sculpture containing four encrypted messages outside the headquarters of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, recently took a bizarre twist.

Over on YouTube, [The Modern Rogue] created an interesting video showing a slide-rule-like encryption device called the Réglette. This was a hardware implementation of a Vigenère-like Cipher, ...

Learn how to implement a classic substitution cipher in C! This step-by-step tutorial walks you through encoding and decoding messages by replacing each letter with another according to a fixed key. A ...

In 2005, Travis Oliphant was an information scientist working on medical and biological imaging at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, when he began work on NumPy, a library that has become a ...

DALLAS, Sept. 3, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Janus Health, a revenue cycle technology provider, announced today that it is one of seven inaugural members of the Cipher Collective, a curated marketplace of AI ...