Molecules like DNA are capable of storing large amounts of data without requiring an energy source, but accessing this molecular data is expensive and time-consuming. Researchers have developed an ...

The following is an excerpt from It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens, by danah boyd. Children love to experiment with encoding messages. From pig latin to invisible ink pens, ...

Ask an early-elementary teacher what the recently popularized term “science-based reading instruction” means, and the response is likely to include something about decoding—the process of translating ...

Quite often, when a sender sends a mail to us via Outlook, we do not see the message but some unreadable characters. If you regularly see some strange or incorrect characters in your Outlook mail, ...

Message serialization goes by a variety of names like “marshalling” or “packing” but all fall under the umbrella of declaring the structure by which messages are assembled. Message serialization is ...

Important data can be stored and concealed quite easily in ordinary plastic using 3D printers and terahertz radiation, scientists show. Holography can be done quite easily: A 3D printer can be used to ...

In the future, spies and undercover operatives could use an intricate method to encode messages: one that entails usage of live, glowing microorganisms. The method, dubbed "Stenography by Printed ...