Across the globe, a race is under way to crack some of the last mysterious forms of writing that have never been translated.

A scholar claims to have deciphered Cryptic B, a mysterious alphabet in the Dead Sea Scrolls long thought impossible to read.

GCHQ’s chief puzzler, known only as Colin, added: “This year’s Christmas challenge features seven puzzles designed to test ...

Joe Walsh revealed the surprising way he ended up learning morse code as a kid as he previewed auction items at The ...

Do you need help growing the fool’s emerald plant in Botany Manor? This chapter five bloom is a tricky (but fun) one! Of all the plants to grow in Botany Manor, fool’s emerald is perhaps the most ...

Since decoding the “waggle dance” in the 1940s, bees have been at the forefront of research into insect intellect. A new study shows that bees can be trained to understand the dot-dash behavior of ...

In Morse code, a short duration flash or ‘dot’ denotes a letter ‘E’ and a long duration flash, or ‘dash’, means letter ‘T’. Until now, the ability to discriminate between ‘dot’ and ‘dash’ has been ...

Bumblebees can learn to understand a simple kind of Morse code and differentiate between long and short light flashes, according to a new study. Researchers have shown for the first time that the ...

In a first-of-its-kind study, scientists found that bumblebees can tell the difference between short and long light flashes, much like recognizing Morse code. The insects learned which signal led to a ...

Researchers at Queen Mary University of London have shown for the first time that an insect—the bumblebee Bombus terrestris—can decide where to forage for food based on different durations of visual ...