#code

5:05am, 15th May, 2019

Bristol academic cracks Voynich code, solving century-old mystery of medieval text

(University of Bristol) A University of Bristol academic has succeeded where countless cryptographers, linguistics scholars and computer programs have failed - by cracking the code of the 'world's most mysterious text', the Voynich man...

Parasitoid wasps may turn spiders into zombies by hacking their internal code

3:01pm, 29th April, 2019

Physics

Parasitoid wasps may turn spiders into zombies by hacking their internal code

(Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute) A hijacked hormone may zombify spiders, altering their web-spinning behavior to favor wasp parasites.

Mysterious river dolphin helps crack the code of marine mammal communication

6:28am, 19th April, 2019

Nature

Mysterious river dolphin helps crack the code of marine mammal communication

(University of Vermont) The Araguaian river dolphin of Brazil was thought to be solitary with little social structure that would require communication. But researchers from the University of Vermont and the University of St. Andrews have discovered t...