A newly-developed cipher could finally shine light on how the strange text of the Voynich manuscript was devised.

A new theory argues the famous Voynich Manuscript, often referred to as “the most mysterious book in the world,” may have ...

The Voynich manuscript has long been shorthand for the unsolved and the unknowable, a late medieval codex filled with looping ...

A unique cipher that uses playing cards and dice to turn languages into glyphs produces text eerily similar to the glyphs in ...

Investors with a lot of money to spend have taken a bullish stance on Cipher Mining (NASDAQ:CIFR). And retail traders should know. We noticed this today when the trades showed up on publicly available ...

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 ...

Reading a person’s mind using a recording of their brain activity sounds futuristic, but it’s now one step closer to reality. A new technique called ‘mind captioning’ generates descriptive sentences ...

CIPHER: Decoding My Ancestor’s Scandalous Secret Diaries. By Jeremy B. Jones. Blair. 296 pages. $28.95. History can be uncomfortable and tricky to put together. When Jeremy Jones, the author of the ...

As a child Mary loved writing in code. As a captive queen, it became essential to her survival. Since childhood, Mary Stuart had enjoyed writing in cipher. Later in life, as Queen of Scots and a ...

EMBL researchers created SDR-seq, a next-generation tool that decodes both DNA and RNA from the same cell. It finally opens access to non-coding regions, where most disease-associated genetic variants ...

Jeremy Jones is a non-fiction writer and professor of English at Western Carolina University. His new book, Cipher: Decoding My Ancestor’s Scandalous Secret Diaries, is out September 16, 2025. It ...