Noise is invisible; there’s no billowing smokestack, no soiled waterway. We just got used to it as it vibrated in the ...

Executive producer Brad Rau tells io9 about that encounter between Maul and Devon—and one strange sound in particular.

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Erik Aadahl, the sound designer behind “Project Hail Mary” and 2014’s “Godzilla,” uses his background in biology to bring ...

The language and identity of electronic music would be laid out by the 1970s, but the 1960s is the decade of electronic music ...

Bill Maher argued that a growing number of credible sightings by military personnel and intelligence officials suggests alien life may be observing Earth, saying skeptics are increasingly the ones ...

One of the nice things about prose is the absolutely enormous narrative checks you don’t ever have to cash. Andy Weir can write that an alien scientist from the star 40 Eridani has a tonal language ...

OLYMPIA, Wash. - State and local offices across Washington are now under direction to remove "alien" from statutes. Instead, instances of that phrasing will be replaced with "noncitizen." The bill, ...

How would we recognize a message from an alien civilization if we cannot understand its language? By combining information theory, Zipf’s Law, and studies of human and dolphin communication, ...