In the 2016 science fiction movie Arrival, a linguist is faced with the daunting task of deciphering an alien language consisting of palindromic phrases, which read the same backwards as they do ...

In the 2016 science fiction movie Arrival, a linguist is faced with the daunting task of deciphering an alien language consisting of palindromic phrases, which read the same backwards as they do ...

'Some aspects of language syntax and externalization may even be shared by extraterrestrial languages, as they are constrained by invariant laws of physics.' When you purchase through links on our ...

Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Shawn Heinrichs. As my colleague Ross Andersen reported in a recent feature for The Atlantic, an international group of scientists called Project CETI is working ...

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Nadia Grace Mullings is a contributor and journalist for Game Rant, and has been a big fan of video gaming from a young age. Strong first impressions included point-and-click games on an old PC (way ...

“I have no clue if there are aliens out there,” concedes Douglas Vakoch, director of METI International, an organization committed to contacting extraterrestrial intelligence. But he is certain that ...

When asked how much of the alien language used by the franchise’s central hunter species he is able to speak, “Predator: Badlands” director Dan Trachtenberg quickly answers “zero.” “My mouth will not ...

Languages like English, French, Japanese, and Swahili are natural languages; they have evolved over time, within a community of speakers, with a shared culture, to facilitate communication. At an ...