But by night, his work takes on a more out-of-this-world nature – he’s devising the methods we'll need to talk to aliens. Creating algorithms that can break down and understand languages on Earth, he ...

Alien lifeforms are likely to have evolved their own unique ways of communicating, so how might humanity communicate with them if ever make contact? "We know where to look. We know how to look." ...

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 ...

Scientists have cracked the code behind a mysterious language discovered among a non-human species living in Earth's oceans that mirrors human speech. Using AI to study whale communication, Project ...

If you’ve ever listened to a recording of whale song, you know that it can be haunting, beautiful, and moving. The songs of humpbacks and the clicks, called codas, of sperm whales are sophisticated ...

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