Nuggets, cheeseburger and Filet-O-Fish. If you didn’t know better, you’d think Bubba Wallace’s team was ordering off a McDonald’s menu. You’d also be excused if you thought Denny Hamlin’s team was ...

The same amino acid can be encoded by anywhere from one to six different strings of letters in the genetic code. Andrzej Wojcicki/Science Photo Library via Getty Images Nearly all life, from bacteria ...

HOUSTON – In a world where personal safety is paramount, knowing how to discreetly alert someone that you’re in danger can be life-saving. While there are many ways to call for help, having a set of ...

Life sometimes imitates art. Remember the Orthofix enforcement action, where the company used the used the code word chocolates to identify the bribes it paid? This lead to the memorable quote from ...

When Paul Ryan talked about a “real culture problem” in “our inner cities in particular” this week, he wasn’t the first American politician to be slammed for using racially coded language to get a ...

From airports to retail stores to hospitals, code words are used in almost every industry. Codes can simplify communication, disguise secret information, or pass messages to employees without alarming ...

Whether it's single digits or acronyms, bizarre phrases or hashtags, the secret codes teenagers are using could spark alarm bells. The hidden words, used in texts and social media to one another, may ...

It is known that messages containing strong phrases by Linus Torvalds are flying around the mailing list of the Linux development project, but the Linux source code itself also contains a large amount ...

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