Lost Nazi cipher manuals relating to a code believed to be more advanced than the famous Enigma cipher have been discovered in Prague after more than 80 years. The original wartime manuals for the ...

For as long as humans have had writing, there’s been a need to send secret messages. It is easy to think that Enigma machines ...

Two people can watch the exact same machine respond to a question and reach completely different conclusions about what just ...

A 1986 Berlin discotheque bombing prompted President Reagan to reveal U.S. intelligence capabilities, inadvertently exposing that America could decrypt messages from Swiss encryption machines used ...

For decades, Elizebeth Smith Friedman worked in near-total secrecy, cracking codes that shaped the outcome of two world wars. Recently declassified, the full extent of her story is still coming to lig ...

Iran had reportedly pressed Buehler about the matter in the immediate aftermath of the La Belle bombing and subsequent airstrikes, but it would take another six years before the country decided to ...

The 'father of modern computing' Alan Turing defiantly embraced his homosexuality in an unpublished short story ...

The unpublished work "Pryce's Buoy" is a six-page, handwritten fragment of a short story written by the famous mathematician ...

Last week, the federal government announced its reform plans. With the package of measures, the black-red coalition is now satisfying a central concern of the population: the abolition of the ...

Mona is discombobulating, and not just because its ancient, modern and contemporary art leans strange. Mostly comprising ...