Some ancient writing systems cannot be deciphered. Can artificial intelligence help crack the codes of the past?

The Voynich manuscript has long been shorthand for the unsolved and the unknowable, a late medieval codex filled with looping ...

Whether you use Windows 11 or 10 on your computer, you must change the execution policy to run a script with PowerShell. To ...

From Latin and Chinese to Tamil and Telugu, discover the top ten most popular writing scripts used around the world ...

It has always been easy to trivialize Brigitte Bardot. In 1957, starring in the movie that made her a global sensation, “And ...

To the designers of film posters, I suppose it looks cleverly exotic – but there are 250 million readers of Cyrillic globally, and its misuse grinds our gears, says comedian and author Viv Groskop ...

Imagine two images from the same week in the life of a nation. The first: The warm, televised glow of a meeting room at the ...

When the Schumer-Rounds Amendment was introduced in the Senate, it explicitly defined “Non-Human Intelligence” in legal text ...

The 2000s didn’t play it safe. These horror films pushed limits, broke rules, and left scars that still define the genre ...

The question “Do Jews need Jesus?” returns in waves, usually when proselytism wants to look like pastoral care. Judaism is ...

Welcome to part three of this history of the world through objects, which we pick up between 1400 and 1500. As always, we're looking at 'things', that tell us about how societies organised themselves, ...

Bread on the Hearses. A child does not need political vocabulary to register that fate can be built as infrastructure: the ...