Steven Spielberg's 'Disclosure Day' trailer teases alien contact and revives interest in 'sine wave language' theories spreading online.

Words for a better world Sun Ra has a way with words – a strange celestial way. Like the rest of us, he uses them to communicate. But what he communicates ...

Rep Eric Burlison says Trump supported a push to access secret UFO sites. The Pentagon maintains there is no verifiable evidence of alien technology.

And spoken language is more varied than written text. There are accents and dialects, meaningful hesitations that can’t be ...

On new record Cerulean, pioneering producer Danny L Harle turns his gaze inward for the first time. Sophie Leigh Walker hears how a decade of shaping pop's outer limits led to this moment of pure, ...

AI such as ChatGPT is giving mental health advise to users. What impact will this have over the long term? Will society be better off or worse off, say 5 years from now?

Originally, I was going to write about the Cubs last, but I feel more threatened by Milwaukee overall. So, I am saving them ...

As a genre, sci-fi is full of memorable and acclaimed classics, but movies like The Matrix and Wall-E go beyond, thanks to their impeccable execution.

Starfleet Academy, the latest Star Trek spinoff, has proven to be controversial for many reasons. One of them is the use of profanity-laced modern language, all of which sounds wildly jarring coming ...

The number of New Zealanders who speak te reo Māori grew 15% from 2018 to 2023 – and the nation’s artists are reflecting this ...

Some say we’ve entered a new age of AI-enabled scientific discovery. But human insight and creativity still can’t be ...

Groundbreaking research is revealing that communication among whales is far more complex and sophisticated than previously ...