This Code Breaking Quaker Poet Hunted Nazis

[ad_1] Known as “America’s first female cryptanalyst,” Elizebeth Smith Friedman was a master code breaker who played a pivotal role in both World Wars. For many years, no one knew what she had done, not even her own family. Code breaking wasn’t Smith Friedman’s plan to begin with. In the mid-1910s she was a 23-year-old
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NASA Reveals Sneak Peek of Historic Asteroid Sample

[ad_1] It looks like Bennu was without a doubt the ideal target for NASA’s initially-ever asteroid sample-return mission. That mission, OSIRIS-REx, sent items of the 1,650-foot-extensive (500 meters) Bennu to Earth late last month. NASA gave the planet its first seem at the sample nowadays (Oct. 11) in the course of a stay webcast party, which also
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