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 ...

Even back in the early 1990s when they were putting together the original Stargate movie, filmmakers Roland Emmerich (Independence Day) and Dean Devlin (The Ark) knew they had to get the little ...

When asked how much of the alien language used by the franchise’s central hunter species he is able to speak, “Predator: Badlands” director Dan Trachtenberg quickly answers, “Zero.” “My mouth will not ...

For many fans of Marvel’s superhero movies, it’s in their wildest dream to be able to contribute to these box office-sweeping blockbusters. For Cornell Ph.D. candidates Ryan Hearn grad and Joseph ...

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 ...