WHAT language might an alien use? As a speculative answer, Denis Villeneuve’s epic sci-fi movie Arrival couldn’t be more intriguing. Louise the linguist is asked to board a spaceship to interpret ...

“All three dialects, sir.” –Lt. Uhura, Star Trek, 2009. Somewhere out in space, in the Beta quadrant of the Star Trek Universe, there’s a planet called Romulus. It’s a planet a bit bigger than Earth, ...

Christopher, S. A., and J. Zhang, 2004: Cloud-free shortwave aerosol radiative effect over oceans: Strategies for identifying anthropogenic forcing from Terra ...

Throughout history, people have tried very hard to come up with “constructed languages” that would become Earth Standard languages, spoken universally. None have been as popular as natural languages ...