Physicists finally identified why some quantum materials seemingly lose their electrical conductivity for no reason.

But this vision of genius is a poor fit for many great artists, and it tends to obscure what makes them and their work ...

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 ...

How does one crack the world’s most famous code? The breakthroughs on Kryptos provide a guided tour through the cat and mouse game between code makers and code breakers that has defined information ...

We need a new path, one that does not push our goal farther away. Many of our planning and zoning laws are rooted in the ‘50s. When it becomes profitable for developers to build lower-cost housing we ...

Every modern automobile carries a 17-character vehicle identification number, an alphanumeric string unique to that single ...

A single leaked hint exposed the CIA’s most puzzling code. But dozens of the world’s toughest ciphers are still waiting to be ...

They learn critical reading skills: vocabulary, fluency and comprehension, as well as phonemic awareness, which is the ...

A coded passage in "Kryptos," Jim Sanborn's sculpture at CIA headquarters, has gone unsolved for decades. After he announced its auction, two researchers stumbled on the answer.

Usually, a story about hacking a coded message will have some computer element or, at least, a machine like an Enigma. But [Ruth Selman] recently posted a challenge asking if anyone could decrypt ...

A Mighty Journey of Faith and Compliance, by Abimbola Adeseyoju, DataPro Limited,209pp + xviIn the crowded genre of the business memoir, where success is often presented as a linear and solitary ...