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 ...

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, ...

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 White House on Thursday said an "illegal alien" driver's crash that killed four on State Route 67 in Jay County, Indiana, was an "abhorrent example of the border crisis" as the Department of ...

As this interstellar object approached its closest point to Earth, a massive radio telescope attempted to sniff out a technosignature. Reading time 3 minutes From the moment astronomers discovered ...

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 ...

TAHLEQUAH, Okla. — With help from another prominent indigenous entity, the Cherokee Nation debuted its own language learning app on Dec. 9. With a ceremony inside Durbin Feeling Language Center, ...

Watching the neurodiversity movement gain traction online and in real life has given me hope that a more inclusive and informed future isn’t too far away. In social media videos, people discuss the ...

Jeffrey C. Lang, of Hales Corners, was born in Wausau on October 27, 1952, and passed away on November 4, 2025, at age 73 from complications of kidney disease and skin cancer. Beloved husband of ...

Ingo Swann was a government-backed psychic who claimed to see things no human was supposed to see—alien structures hidden on the far side of the Moon. Years later, declassified CIA documents confirmed ...