What they are, why we should care and what we can do about the problems they cause By Matthew Holloway The term invasive ...

Guam has 40 times more spiders than neighbouring islands – and a population of invasive snakes so voracious, they have emptied the forests of every bird ... snake – an alien invader which ...

New tools help us peek into the “black box” of AI communication, revealing how AI agents develop their own unique ways of sharing information.

To simulate how language may evolve, we give agents (AIs) simple tasks that require communication, like a game where one ...

In the 2016 science fiction movie Arrival, a linguist is faced with the daunting task of deciphering an alien language ...

Before the world knew what had hit it, our reporter Philip Strick visited the set of Ridley Scott’s answer to Star Wars, to discuss terror, smoke and the Alien Problem. From our Winter 1978/79 issue.

A serious problem for the environment nowadays is the scholar- and media-driven promotion of peer-reviewed scientific studies ...

To Bailey's chagrin, Bug's girlfriend of three months and now fiancée, Kayleigh (Frankie Box ... Bird's quiet smile, and his seeming friendly demeanor with no ulterior motives, feels entirely ...