Computer science experts have designed a system to encrypt software so that it only allows someone to use a program as intended while preventing any deciphering of the code behind it. This is known in ...

Solving a 400-piece jigsaw puzzle should be a doddle – but it’s won a computer a new world record. The previous record of 320 pieces was established by a Danish team in 2008 – but their computer could ...

Give a jigsaw puzzle to anyone under 10 and you can guarantee that a dozen or so pieces will soon be found lurking under furniture. Unless, of course, it's a digital jigsaw puzzle. Jixxa 2.0, by Rhode ...

Ron Moore uses a very thin scroll saw for the intricate cutting involved in his jigsaw puzzles. Ron Moore of Dallas designs and cuts puzzles with a jigsaw in his workshop. Called Turtle Teasers, he ...

Imagine millions of jigsaw puzzle pieces scattered across a football field, with too few people and too little time available to assemble the picture. Scientists in the new but fast-growing field of ...

Early in the morning on September 26, 1997, a mild temblor shook northern Italy, rattling the fragile 13th-century Basilica of St. Francis in Assisi. Only minor damage occurred, and the friars counted ...

Scientists in the fast-growing field of computational genomics are getting lots of data but lack the computer power needed to analyze it quickly. Imagine millions of jigsaw puzzle pieces scattered ...