Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rare papers of Enigma codebreaker Alan Turing fetch record sum at UK auction A collection of rare scientific papers written by ...

This story is a collaboration with Biography.com. Bletchley Park, the center of espionage for Britain during the Second World War, was a house of secrets as the Nazi scourge made it way across Europe.

A play about the life of mathematician and World War Two codebreaker Alan Turing is set to open in the autumn before touring the country. Breaking the Code, based on the book Alan Turing, The Enigma, ...

Alan Mathison Turing wasn’t just the gay mathematician and computer scientist who helped defeat the Nazis during World War II by cracking their “Enigma” code — he was also a close friend to gay fellow ...

He was without a doubt a genius and a polymath who not only through his work at Bletchley during the Second World War ...

The encrypted tribute was placed on 'Trainbow' Intercity Express Train 800008, which was named after the wartime codebreaker and computing ...

Using a new computer model, scientists simulated the stripes, spots and hexagons on a species of boxfish, imperfections and all. By Katrina Miller The portrait depicts the British mathematician Alan ...