Whenever we zip up a file and send it through the web, we’re compressing data. Part of the theory behind lossless compression is that redundant data gets compacted meaningfully, so that they take up ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." A vintage dress purchased at an antique shop a decade ago contained a hidden code that has baffled people ...

A secret code hidden inside a century-old vintage silk dress that had eluded cryptographers for a decade has finally been cracked, throwing some light on the identity of the woman who owned the attire ...

An antique dress bought a decade ago with coded messages dating back from the 19th century was unveiled, revealing it was a U.S. Army Signal Corps weather observation, providing a glimpse into ...

This silk dress actually contained encoded messages that provide a time portal where we learn about the history of weather forecasting on America’s frontiers in the 1880s Figure 1. The Victorian-era ...

BISMARCK — Sara Rivers Cofield loved the dress at first sight. It was a beautiful brown silk bustle dress with original buttons from the 1880s, on sale at an antique mall in Maine. Rivers Cofield, an ...