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There are creatures here on Earth that may give us clues on getting "chat-time" with extraterrestrial intelligence — dolphins, which are famously social and smart. Recently, the Coller Dolittle ...

Over the decades, archaeologists have turned up a great many artifacts from the Indus civilization, including stamp sealings, amulets and small tablets. Robert Harding / Photo Library The Indus ...

Researchers at MIT have created a new system that uses machine learning to help linguists decipher languages that have been lost to time. Research suggests that most languages that have ever existed ...

In the 2016 science fiction movie Arrival, a linguist is faced with the daunting task of deciphering an alien language consisting of palindromic phrases, which read the same backwards as they do ...

Sept. 21 (UPI) --Some 80 different human cultures use whistling to communicate across long distances. In a new paper, published Tuesday in the journal Frontiers in Psychology, scientists argue these ...