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 ...

First proposed in 2012, the Inter-universal Teichmüller Theory (IUT) is a devilishly difficult math theory that experts describe as an “alien language.” Although only a few mathematicians around the ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." It's likely that you won't understand any of the mathematics in this article, but you'd be in good ...