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The Scots Magazine – which claims to be one of the oldest magazines in the world still in publication– has embraced the digital age with the launch of its first app for the iPad and iPhone. Publishers ...

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Cryptologists use modern technology to decipher nearly 50 letters Mary Queen of Scots sent while imprisoned from 1578 to 1584. For years, researchers who visited the Bibliothèque nationale de France ...