The Voynich manuscript—a mysterious medieval book that has defied translation for centuries—may have been created using a special code developed with the help of cards and dice, a new study suggests.

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A pair of Canadian codebreakers may have deciphered a 600-year-old book that has been baffling cryptologists for centuries. But, more likely, they probably haven't. In a study published in the journal ...

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Understanding how the immune system responds is a vital step in developing new therapeutics and diagnostics, and towards knowing more about the natural history of disease. Rapid Novor is developing ...

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