There's something deeply unsettling about discovering an object that simply has no business being where it is, or when it is.

From giant katla held aloft at roadshows to ilish, pabda and chingri finding pride of place in political speeches, fish has ...

Maria Giménez Cavallo and Jo Ann Cavallo explore the themes of language, conflict, and paths to peace in Denis Villeneuve’s ...

Researchers decoded Teotihuacan symbols as an early Uto-Aztecan writing system, possibly linked to Nahuatl speakers and reshaping theories about the city’s people.

UC Santa Cruz student Skyla Tomine is terrified by the language she hears in the news, including the term “enemy alien.” It sounds chillingly familiar to Executive Order 9066, which forced her ...

A professional soccer player seeking asylum in the US was deported to El Salvador under the Aliens Enemy Act. Immigration officials accused Jerce Reyes Barrios of gang membership—based on a tattoo and ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

OLYMPIA, Wash. - State and local offices across Washington are now under direction to remove "alien" from statutes. Instead, instances of that phrasing will be replaced with "noncitizen." The bill, ...

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, ...

The UFO/UAP conversation has moved from fringe conspiracy to mainstream scrutiny. In February 2026, President Trump directed the Pentagon and federal agencies to identify and release files on ...

The bones of our ancestors remain silent. So, how can we possibly imagine what our earliest languages sounded like? Paleoanthropologists study millions of years of fossil evidence to try and ...