Sperm whales swimming off the coast of Dominica. The marine mammals have a complex communication system that scientists are working to decode. Amanda Cotton Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 ...

The mammals' mysterious clicks contain a stunning level of complexity, a new study shows. A group of sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) swims together in the Indian Ocean. For years, researchers ...

Soundtracks, screens and bookshelves will feature a Latin American flavour in 2026. The region’s cultural industries, once thought peripheral, have become central to global entertainment. From Puerto ...

Pig Latin. Ig-pay atin-lay. It’s not really a different language, but an encoded version of English based on a very simple transformation rule. Move the first sound to the end of the word and add "ay.

Fluent English speakers often add sounds between words to link them together. When one word ends with a vowel sound, and the following word begins with a vowel sound, you might hear a subtle /j/ or /w ...

Ellohay, anday elcomeway otay isthay article-ay! Wait, don’t worry, your computer isn’t broken! That’s just Pig Latin, a “language” that has been confusing—and delighting—people for centuries. While ...

Eudex ([juːˈdɛks]) is a Soundex-esque phonetic reduction/hashing algorithm, providing locality sensitive "hashes" of words, based on the spelling and pronunciation. It is derived from the ...

As the long Fourth of July weekend draws to an end, Wordle fans prepare for today’s puzzle. With summer fully underway and temperatures soaring, a fresh challenge awaits before mid-July and the ...

If you spend enough time online, you're bound to come come across a sentence like this: "Yr brn cn rd wrds wtht vwls." It looks like nonsense at first glance, but after a moment, you probably read it ...