In the future, spies and undercover operatives could use an intricate method to encode messages: one that entails usage of live, glowing microorganisms. The method, dubbed "Stenography by Printed ...

The following is an excerpt from It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens, by danah boyd. Children love to experiment with encoding messages. From pig latin to invisible ink pens, ...

Message serialization goes by a variety of names like “marshalling” or “packing” but all fall under the umbrella of declaring the structure by which messages are assembled. Message serialization is ...

With the antibacterial system in place, researchers created precise bacterial patterns. They spread nanoparticle-coated bacteria on mixed cellulose ester membranes and exposed them to light through a ...

For millennia, people have written secret messages in invisible ink, which could only be read under certain lights or after developing with certain chemicals. Now, scientists have come up with a way ...