In January middle school and high school students at more than 200 host sites across the U.S. and parts of Canada competed in the North American Computational Linguistics Open Competition (NACLO), ...

Pedantry is a desirable characteristic in a lawyer, to my mind. Lawyers do, after all, spend much time arguing profitably about semantics. Journalists should be pedants too. Paul Rogerson I wrestled ...

If you've ever tried to plug a standard USB cord or connector in while not looking, fumbling around with the connection altogether, you know it can sometimes be difficult to plug in. That's because ...

How would we recognize a message from an alien civilization if we cannot understand its language? By combining information theory, Zipf’s Law, and studies of human and dolphin communication, ...

In Stefan Fatsis’s capacious, and at times score-settling, personal history of the reference book, he reveals what the dictionary can still tell us about language in modern life A page taken from the ...

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has directed the release of government files in an apparent attempt to answer a question many have asked: Are aliens real? In a post on social media platform Truth ...

WASHINGTON, D.C., USA — Former U.S. President Barack Obama said he did not see evidence that aliens “have made contact with us,” after sending social media abuzz by saying aliens were real on a ...

The mysterious space rock that passed through our solar system grew significantly brighter as it left, according to scientists. Researchers say Comet 3I/ATLAS, suggested to be a hostile alien ...

A groundbreaking new monolingual Irish dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge, the body responsible for the promotion of the Irish language throughout the island of Ireland, was launched this week by ...