The search for enslaved ancestors often hits a wall. Can new tools break it?

A writer's search for her Jamaican ancestors reveals how the largest efforts yet to digitize and connect slavery-era records ...

Medieval text family trees suggest 60% of works vanished over centuries

For every King Arthur or Roland, whose adventures readers can still enjoy today, another hero of ancient literature may have ...
IEEE

An Encoding Table Corresponding to ASCII Codes for DNA Data Storage and a New Error Correction Method HMSA

Abstract: DNA storage stands out from other storage media due to its high capacity, eco-friendliness, long lifespan, high stability, low energy consumption, and low data maintenance costs. To ...
Scientific American

History depends on records that weren’t built to last

Chat apps, email, and cloud files have become the primary record of how power is exercised. Archivists are trying to preserve ...

500 years ago, the first New Testament in English was published – and stirred up a hornet’s nest

William Tyndale’s translation, published in 1526, was based on a then-radical idea: Anyone should be able to read the Bible ...
IEEE

Neural-Network-Based Recursive State Estimation for Nonlinear Networked Systems With Binary-Encoding Mechanisms

Abstract: This work addresses the problem of recursive state estimation for networked control systems with unknown nonlinearities and binary-encoding mechanisms (BEMs). To enhance transmission ...
Phys.org

Binary asteroids' puzzling configurations may link to multi-satellite history

Binary asteroid systems are widespread throughout our inner solar system. For decades, the standard paradigm held that many of them form when a rapidly spinning primary asteroid casts off material, ...