The phrase "and attempt to decipher" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing the process of trying to understand or interpret something that is unclear or difficult to comprehend.
Example: "The researchers gathered the ancient texts and attempted to decipher their meanings."
Alternatives: "and try to interpret" or "and seek to understand".
Whether it's physicians trying to determine how a virus works, or ecologists striving to understand how ecosystems function, science is about observing nature carefully and attempting to decipher how and why it works the way it does.
Many researchers have made great efforts to investigate the divergent muscle growth rates and muscle cell sizes of broilers and layers and attempted to decipher the underlining mechanisms of above phenomena.
They are thus incited to intercept the transmitted message and to attempt to decipher the secret information.
I recently conducted the experiment again, this time with girls, in an attempt to evaluate the differences between how girls and guys get themselves off and in an attempt to decipher if said differences make any difference to the way the sexes dress.
Understanding the relative importance of genetic versus plasticity factors represents a major challenge, and a first attempt to decipher both, we previously compared growth patterns in controlled conditions between young eels from two geographic origins [ 6].
For years now, architects and planners have been jetting to places like Barcelona, Bilbao and Mérida in an attempt to decipher one of the great architectural success stories in modern history.
And, with the belief that proving Bacon's ownership would fetch a high price for the work at auction, Voynich enlisted William Newbold, a professor of philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania and a cryptography enthusiast, to attempt to decipher it.
A first attempt to decipher transfer and potential integration of breastmilk-derived stem cells, along with immune cells, to the offspring was recently carried out by Hassiotou (now Kakulas) et al. with positive results showing integration and differentiation in various organs of the nursed offspring in a murine model13.
