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 ...

A study of more than two million images downloaded from eBay auctions appears to show little evidence that terrorists -- or indeed anybody else -- is using the images to hide encoded messages. The ...

In a major step toward high-speed space internet, NASA has successfully exchanged laser-encoded messages with a spacecraft over 350 million kilometers from Earth. The story, reported by IFLScience, ...

Addison Snell’s Sunday debut requires us to crack the code. By Caitlin Lovinger SUNDAY PUZZLE — Addison Snell lives in Mountain View, Calif., and is the chief executive of Intersect360 Research, a ...

It’s a grave situation. A family put an encoded message on their father’s gravestone as a way to honor him, but the cemetery staff finds it offensive. At the Warren-Powers Cemetery in Polk, Iowa, the ...

More than a year after launching the multidisciplinary art project "A Sign in Space," conceived by SETI Artist in Residence Daniela De Paulis, a father-daughter team has successfully decoded the ...

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. Publishing May 16 in the Cell ...

A Sign in Space imagines how Earth might respond to a signal from aliens and invites the public to help decode an ET message. May 22, 2023, Mountain View, CA – What would happen if we received a ...

Ink containing polymers that can store data has been used to write a letter containing a hidden message – the encryption key to unlock a text file of L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Eric ...

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