Linguists can mix, match or even break the rules of real-world languages to create interesting imaginary ones.
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 ...
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How scientists would recognize an alien signal, the mathematics of language, Zipf’s law, and information entropy
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, ...
In a packed ballroom in Los Angeles, astrologer Shima Moore announces that something has just happened in the stars for the first time in at least 6,400 years. Minutes earlier, Saturn and Neptune met ...
Why does “bouba” sound round and “kiki” sound spiky? This intuition that ties certain sounds to shapes is oddly reliable all over the world. For at least a century scientists have considered this ...
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