Sputnik skies to analysis of interstellar visitors, scientists are rethinking how and where to look for physical traces of ...

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Human language is structured to minimize mental effort by using familiar, predictive patterns grounded in lived experience.

A major claim in the older media cycle was that NASA removed the book and related materials. Whatever happened during the original wave of reporting, the current reality is clear: NASA now provides an ...

So what could possibly connect aliens and us? A new study suggests the answer is mathematics. The researchers argue that math ...

Mark Wallace, the owner of the Rex Bar in Belfast’s Shankill Road, knows just two phrases in Irish. The first is “Shankill” – which comes from the word Seanchille, or “the old church”. The second ...

Steven Spielberg is synonymous with science fiction, and he’s especially associated with sci-fi stories that feature aliens, but it’s actually been 20 years since the director of E.T. and Close ...

A new study reveals that the human brain processes spoken language in a sequence that closely mirrors the layered architecture of advanced AI language models. Using electrocorticography data from ...

Ask him how it all began, and he remembers the ice. It was a bitter morning in January, 1982, when Bernard Cathomas, aged thirty-six, carefully picked his way up a slippery, sloping Zurich street. His ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. The prey may change — the planets, too, their digital backdrops swirling like screensavers — but take comfort in ...