If aliens really are out there, interacting with them is going to be difficult. It’s not that they’ll just speak a different language – it’s more that the very building blocks of communication ...

Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Shawn Heinrichs. As my colleague Ross Andersen reported in a recent feature for The Atlantic, an international group of scientists called Project CETI is working ...

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 ...