This site has some really neat pictures and a video detailing Babbage's Difference Engine. The pictures are gigapixel, so they are incredibly detailed.

Continuation of a story I posted a while ago. Britain's top code-breakers say they are stumped by a secret code found on the leg of a dead pigeon. .

Using data from cellphone locations in Kenya, analysts are better able to predict how malaria will spread.

Here is the tool I used that puts the plain text letters over the cipher letters.

Not directly involving cryptography, but the implications of this definitely affect the field. Now that we have the capability to generate truly random number strings, our ability to encrypt data will improve.

Researchers have applied the microdot principle described by Singh on page 6 to hide messages in DNA sequences.