Searching for alien languages sheds light on how much human languages have in common—with each other and even with animal ...

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OLYMPIA, Wash. - State and local offices across Washington are now under direction to remove "alien" from statutes. Instead, instances of that phrasing will be replaced with "noncitizen." The bill, ...

How would we recognize a message from an alien civilization if we cannot understand its language? By combining information theory, Zipf’s Law, and studies of human and dolphin communication, ...

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Two new studies from Project CETI provide the most detailed account of a sperm whale birth ever recorded, revealing ...

Teams at UC Berkeley and Cornell examined millions of recent papers and found that while the volume of submissions had risen ...