Humans have been scouring the sky for alien life for centuries, and we’ve had, let’s face it, little success. Proposed reasons for that range from the existentially bleak to the profoundly terrifying ...

All known human languages display a surprising pattern: the most frequent word in a language is twice as frequent as the second most frequent, three times as frequent as the third, and so on. This is ...

I don't think I understand the discovery here. From the Ars article, it sounds like someone showed that all languages they analyzed showed a preferred clustering that differed from a random ...