USM stands for Ultrasonic Autofocus Motor. These lenses offer manual focus override and fast, smooth and comparatively quiet ...

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 solved.

For more than 50 years, airports around the world have been designated by three-letter codes, that usually—but not always—refer to their cities like ATL, DEN, and LAX.

They learn critical reading skills: vocabulary, fluency and comprehension, as well as phonemic awareness, which is the ability to think about sound structures in spoken words, and decoding or ...

What hidden messages might other occult symbols convey? Are you ready to read the signs? Here, we decode five mystical ...

The prevailing belief was that by decoding these sequences, we could unlock how cells and organisms fundamentally work. Now, research from Northwestern Engineering’s Vadim Backman reveals a second ...

The phonics screening check is so closely correlated with month of birth that it can be argued that it is a test of age rather than decoding.

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 ...

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 ...

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