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 ...

Communication was long thought to be a domain ruled strictly by man, but we now know that many species of animals have that ability. Cetaceans, corvids, and canines. These are all animals that ...

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 ...

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 ...

Researchers have developed an innovative label-free method for studying the behavior of single cells continuously and in real time. By placing a cell in a small chamber containing nanosensors and ...