Alt-week 27.10.12: ancient texts, super-Earths and special-ops mice

Alt-week peels back the covers on some of the more curious sci-tech stories from the last seven days.

If, like us, you struggle to read the front of the Corn Flakes box of a morning, you likely gave up any hopes of cracking ancient codes long ago. If you didn't, however, then your time might be now, as one of the oldest scripts know to man is still up for grabs. Prefer just to observe? No problem as we've got super-Earth-searching satellites, military mice and vertical farms, all for your viewing reading pleasure. If you hadn't guessed, this is alt-week

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