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

Milly Alcock learned 5 alien languages and trained daily to play Kara Zor-El in 'Supergirl,' as revealed in new CinemaCon footage from DC.

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

In these science fiction books, extraterrestrial beings are sympathetic, horrifying and everything in between.

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Have you ever wondered why almost every species in Star Trek can understand each other? Here's the fictional technology that ...

A neuroscientist's experiment with AI across four languages reveals what multilingual minds carry that no algorithm ever will ...

This article contains Project Hail Mary spoilers. The hype around Project Hail Mary was building for quite a while before its release. Fans of Andy Weir’s bestselling sci-fi novel were very excited to ...

In January middle school and high school students at more than 200 host sites across the U.S. and parts of Canada competed in the North American Computational Linguistics Open Competition (NACLO), ...

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, ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X “I’ve always been fascinated with things that cannot be explained,” Spielberg revealed in a 2026 ...