New research suggests prodigious pups that already have large vocabularies can learn new words by listening in on their ...

Scientists discovered bees performing mathematical calculations, potentially providing a solution for future alien ...

A group of Australian scientists have revealed how we may be able to learn to speak with aliens, and the answer is found ...

Humans have yet to find aliens. But they are already preparing for the day this happens, and have been working on languages ...

Scientists are studying bees’ surprising maths skills to explore whether numbers could be a universal language for ...

Mathematics also features in a 1998 novella by Ted Chiang called Story of Your Life, which was adapted into the 2016 film ...

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

Real scientific efforts at universal communication have also involved mathematics and numbers. The covers of the Golden ...

New Scientist writers and contributors have chosen their top science-y books, films, TV shows, music, video games and board ...

As we call time on the first quarter of the 21st century, I thought it might be a good opportunity to look back at some of the landmark moments that built the bridge between those two realities. As ...

Abstract: In this study, we investigate whether speech symbols, learned through deep learning, follow Zipf’s law, akin to natural language symbols. Zipf’s law is an empirical law that delineates the ...