Usually, a story about hacking a coded message will have some computer element or, at least, a machine like an Enigma. But [Ruth Selman] recently posted a challenge asking if anyone could decrypt an ...

For nearly a decade, sleuths had tried to decode a cryptic note discovered in the silk bustle dress. An analyst finally cracked the case. By Livia Albeck-Ripka Sara Rivers Cofield was on her usual ...

An amateur radio operator believes mysterious radio broadcasts could be instructions being sent to CIA agents in Iran. When 47-year-old Roberto, from Milan, switched on his shortwave radio on Tuesday, ...