Tapping into whale talk: Open-source bio-logger captures underwater cetacean conversations

Tapping into whale talk: Open-source bio-logger captures underwater cetacean conversations

Say you want to listen in on a group of super-intelligent aliens whose language you don't understand, and whose spaceship only flies by Earth once an hour. It's not unlike what Harvard scientists and others are doing, except their target species, sperm whales, thankfully live here on Earth.

Tapping into whale talk

Cambridge MA (SPX) Dec 15, 2025 Say you want to listen in on a group of super-intelligent aliens whose language you don't understand, and whose spaceship only flies by Earth once an hour. It's not unlike what Harvard scientists and others are doing, except their target species, sperm whales, thankfully live here on Earth. As part of the nonprofit Project CETI (Cetacean Translation Initiative), an ambitious, multi-institu