Steven Spielberg's upcoming sci-fi thriller 'Disclosure Day' has already become one of the most talked-about Super Bowl trailer drops, with fans now connecting its mysterious alien themes to ...

What do Bigfoot, alien abductions and faked moon landings have in common with popular theories about word origins? More than you might think.

The four faculty that assembled to explore artificial general intelligence represent multiple disciplines across UC San Diego, a public research university that prioritizes cross-collaboration.

Was I ever surprised to read Rich Lowry’s opinion in the January 28 edition of the Monroe County News. It was entitled “Minnesota officials should call off the mob.” He ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Among the myriad abilities that humans possess, which ones are uniquely human? Language has been a top candidate at least since ...

How do you teach somebody to read a language if there’s nothing for them to read? This is the problem facing developers across the African continent who are trying to train AI to understand and ...

Bernhard Strigel, The Annunciation to Saint Anne, c. 1505–10, oil on panel, 58 × 30 cm. Courtesy Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid In mid-October, sociologist Alix Rule and artist David Levine ...

BOULDER, Colo. — For years, the number of people who could speak the Arapaho language has been dwindling. But a linguistics professor at CU Boulder is collaborating with the Northern Arapaho Tribe to ...

It is guaranteed that any future advancements we make in the sciences must reduce to the current laws we understand when tested in the environments in which they were developed. Einstein's gravity ...

The way sperm whales communicate may be more similar to human language than previously thought. The acoustic properties of whale calls resemble vowels, a defining feature of human language, according ...

Predator: Badlands star Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi revealed in a new interview that he had to make up his own alien language and complete an obstacle course during his auditions for the movie ...

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 ...