In his books and films, Dr. Dolittle’s ability to “talk to animals” fired his imagination. Now scientists are being offered a $10 million bounty to create real conversations. The Coller Dolittle Challenge for Two-Way Interspecies Communication was launched by the Jeremy Coller Foundation and Tel Aviv University. While the use of AI is not mandatory,… Read More »
How do elephants say hello? Researchers are learning more about how animals greet each other and how relationships between social species may affect this communication. According to a paper published Thursday in the journal Communications Biology, African elephants use different combinations of gestures and vocalizations in their greetings, such as ear flapping and vocalizations; this… Read More »
ROSEAU, Dominica (AP) — Scientists studying sperm whales living around the Caribbean island of Dominica have described the basics of how they can talk to each other for the first time, in an effort that could one day help better protect them. . Sperm whales, like many whales and dolphins, are highly social mammals and… Read More »
ROSEAU, Dominica (AP) — Scientists studying sperm whales living around the Caribbean island of Dominica have described the basics of how they can talk to each other for the first time, in an effort that could one day help better protect them. . Sperm whales, like many whales and dolphins, are highly social mammals and… Read More »
Late last year, NASA scientists launched a highly anticipated space mission. Essentially, they launched a spacecraft towards an asteroid that may have been made entirely of metal; It’s a rare combination – at least near our solar system. The robot adventurer’s name is Psyche, and her namesake is the giant rock that guides her journey:… Read More »
A version of this story appeared in CNN’s What Matters newsletter. Sign up for free to get it in your inbox Here. The Republican rift jeopardizes the expansion of a cornerstone of U.S. intelligence collection, where the government collects vast amounts of internet and cell phone data. The trove of data currently at stake is… Read More »
If you’ve ever wondered how millions of cell phones around the world are able to transmit voice, text, and other data regularly and efficiently, here’s the answer: GSM meaning (or more precisely, it means global system for mobile communications). This cornerstone of modern communications underpins the way mobile phones work around the world. What is… Read More »
This is called xenolinguistics: looking at the science of extraterrestrial linguistics. Biologists, anthropologists, linguists, and other experts who specialize in language and communication have begun to explore what non-human, extraterrestrial language might look like. Possibly such thinking has led to fabricated thoughts. Klingon languagecosmic “Klingon” chatter spoken by one of the alien speciesStar wars.” There… Read More »
National roaming hiccup: Kyivstar glitch sends shockwaves through connectivity Ukraine’s largest mobile operator, Kyivstar, suffered a major outage that left all its subscribers without communications and internet access, prompting urgent investigations into the nature and origins of the crippling attack. Kyivstar suddenly stopped providing service to its subscribers on the morning of December 12; Mobile… Read More »