Sunday Times News: The Greek alphabet, which has been in use since about 9 B.C., was the first to have letters for each vowel and consonant.

However, they confirmed that this method provides a net gain and identified that an alphabet of 56 letters reduces the DNA data storage cost by an optimal 56%. Furthermore, with this alphabet the ...

The letters — eight pages of German writing and hand-drawn diagrams — will hit the auction block at Christie's in New York today (June 12) at 2 p.m. ET, as part of the "Fine Printed Books and ...