Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Researchers in Cambridge have re-engineered the genetic code of microbes to create a synthetic cell with ...

French police have reportedly recovered a code book which could give investigators clues to the methods Islamic terrorists used to hide information in seemingly innocent messages. The American ...

It has long been thought the text, which is full of illustrations of exotic plants, stars and mysterious human figures, could contain a prophecy or even the key to eternal life. The impenetrable text ...