Alan Turing Vs. The Mechanical Nazi

By: World Science Festival Staff Computer science pioneer and cryptanalyst Alan Turing’s crowning achievement during World War II was helping British intelligence crack the fiendishly complicated codes used by the German military’s Enigma machine. In this video from the 2011 World Science Festival, journalist Simon Singh offers a peek at the Enigma machine’s inner workings. […]

The Ant Cemetery

By: World Science Festival Staff After checking the pulse or the brain activity, the doctor officially pronounces a person dead; and then that person is buried. But what do ants do with their dead comrades? How do they know when their fellow ants are dead? Would an ant ever bury his brother alive? Evolutionary botanist […]

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