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 ...

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 ...

It took more than 20 years to translate the Rosetta stone. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Some ancient societies had written ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is changing the way we look at the world. AI "robots" are everywhere. From our phones to devices like Amazon's Alexa, we live in a world surrounded by machine learning.

In a recent experiment, researchers used large language models to translate brain activity into words. By Oliver Whang Think of the words whirling around in your head: that tasteless joke you wisely ...

Restoring communication Jerry Tang and colleagues at The University of Texas at Austin have developed a language decoder that translates brain activity data from functional MRI scans into a continuous ...