Spoken communication requires effort. At the same time, the relatively small number of important words and their uses can be learned fairly easily — but only if they are taught, writes Tiit Hennoste.

Could we ever decipher alien languages? Uncovering how AI communicates may be key Language is ephemeral, it leaves no examinable trace in the fossil records. Unlike bones, we can’t dig up ancient ...

In the 2016 movie Arrival, water-dwelling extraterrestrials make an appearance on Earth. The main human character’s job is to learn how to communicate with the seven-tentacled extraterrestrials before ...