Linguists can mix, match or even break the rules of real-world languages to create interesting imaginary ones.

Project CETI, you may recall, is the same group that recently released footage showing adult sperm whales collaborating as ...

They were easier to hear, because the world had suddenly become quieter. Car traffic plummeted as people sheltered at home ...

Erik Aadahl, the sound designer behind “Project Hail Mary” and 2014’s “Godzilla,” uses his background in biology to bring ...

The language and identity of electronic music would be laid out by the 1970s, but the 1960s is the decade of electronic music ...

Bill Maher argued that a growing number of credible sightings by military personnel and intelligence officials suggests alien life may be observing Earth, saying skeptics are increasingly the ones ...

One of the nice things about prose is the absolutely enormous narrative checks you don’t ever have to cash. Andy Weir can write that an alien scientist from the star 40 Eridani has a tonal language ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

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, ...