= socially approved, normal speech

Everyday vocabulary = socially approved, normal speech	Academic vocabulary = geekishly awesome gibberish
The aliens developed / changed their bodies over time to suit the world where they live.	The extraterrestrial / alien beings evolved / adapted their physical structure to suit their environment.
It turned out to be very hard to live in this terrible world / hell.	It became extremely challenging for them to survive in the local harsh conditions / environments.
They had these weird changes happen to their bodies. This way they were able to cope with gravity getting weaker with time.	They developed (some / certain) bizarre adaptations to cope with the problem of constantly decreasing / weakening gravity.
Temperature there goes up and down all the time and can change from – 2000 C at night to 3000 C when it's daytime / during the day.	Temperatures there (constantly) vary / range / fluctuate from – 2000 C to 3000 C.
Their bodies look like the kind of bodies the cows have / some seafood has on Earth.	Their bodily structure is similar to that of our cows / some of our marine species.
They take in energy from their surroundings by eating other animals / from sunlight etc.	They extract energy from their surroundings by consuming other animal species / animal flesh etc.
They don't seem to be able to poop or pee. Instead they…	They eliminate waste from their body / defecate in a very singular way.
We are not 100 percent sure at the moment, but some results of our work show that they don't have senses like we do and get and treat information sharing the task.	Although the available data is contradictory, some results of our investigation may indicate that they don't possess any senses comparable to ours and obtain and process information collectively.
We found out that they probably use several parts of their bodies to make babies.	A significant number of their organs were presumably identified as performing reproductive functions.
Understanding some of their overly difficult messages turned out to be so (dam) hard that to get their meaning more science work would be needed to be done than the whole mankind will ever be able to do.	Interpreting some of the extremely complicated information they transmit may require more scientific research than humans will ever be capable of accomplishing.

Alien biology and society

Alien economy

Everyday vocabulary = socially approved, normal speech	Academic vocabulary = geekishly awesome gibberish
Their communist community stopped using a way too uninteresting and common money bills and started buying and selling things fairly, exchanging thoughts and promises instead of real money.	Their community-based society developed a distinctively complex system of barter and equitable exchange by replacing money with thoughts and introducing the so-called concept of virtual accounts.
They found out that inventions weren't good for their economic growth and killed all local scientists. Priests and lawyers got way more powerful there.	Their post post-industrial society banned innovations, which became a detriment to efficiency, and created an economy based on traditions.
Their bodies got so weak, they don't need to have anything to own or buy anymore.	Their biological self became so atrophied through time that they don't have any property or consumer goods to possess in their society.
Their economic growth comes mostly from what their robot slaves bring them back from wars on other planets.	The advancement of their economy derives mainly from objects of value obtained during the interstellar war campaigns they wage through their robotic slaves.

Alien architecture

Most of their houses have some sort of doors and windows. We couldn't figure out how they use them or why they build them.	Most types of their housings feature (door / window) openings of some sort. These openings serve no evident purpose and still remain a mystery for our research team.
They have a lot of other strange, shapeshifting and dumb creatures living with them in their houses. They call them pets.	Their housings are inhabited by a wide range of shape-modifying, mentally disabled beings termed "pets".
Public buildings there usually have many many rooms. Every room has two doors that cannot be opened at the same time. If one of the doors is opened, the other is always closed.	Commonly owned buildings in their colonies consist of innumerable rooms featuring each two door openings that can not remain opened simultaneously.
These rooms can move inside the building. It means that you cannot know where a room is now or where it was two minutes ego for example.	The rooms are mobile and, in consequence, defining the exact location of each room at each time point proved to be problematic.
We found a lot of buildings with domes. Some ancient peoples worshipped there their wild and uncivilized gods.	Multiple dome-shaped structures were constructed on the planet by some previous civilizations in order to worship their barbaric objects of faith.

Alien law

They don't have any laws except for some kind of writings they call "the ten commandments". They follow these writings when they want to be good with other aliens or when they need to do something in a right way.	The whole legislative system of the extraterrestrial beings consists of a small number of ancient scripts, i.e. the ten commandments that regulate social behavior and other aspects of life on the planet.
To tell the truth, they don't think that there's any reason why they would need to have a parliament or courts of law in their society, because they are shy and don't communicate with each other.	In fact, their society sees no need in establishing any primary or secondary legislative organs due to the lack of any common social interaction between the members of extraterrestrial society.
When a crime is committed they don't have the proper skills / are not skillful enough to make the commandments work. So they have their pets make them work.	As they lost their ability to enforce their laws they entrusted the task of enforcing the law to their domestic companions also known as "pets".
When someone of them "fucks up", and they need to make their law work, their pets look inside the writings and, however dumb the pets are, decide on what should be done.	When a member of their society commits a crime, the organ entrusted to enforce the law, i.e. "pets", consult the ancient scripts and, having their judgment clouded or not, evaluate the degree of guilt on its own.
Because some of the crimes are so bad that the criminals who are responsible for them have to be put down (=killed), it's the pets' bad that they won't have masters anymore.	As certain crimes are punishable by death, imposing punishment may also mean for pets being dispossessed of their masters.

To sound like a real scientist try and use as often as you can:

1) Mark logical possibility (scientists can never be 100 percent sure about anything)

some / certain + verb may

(it is) possible / probable (that)

2) compound adjectives

mashroom-like creatures

alien-type buildings

dome-shaped temples

3) words from The Academic Word List in their natural contexts and collocations.

Nouns:

you introduce / develop / understand the basic / the whole concept of / that

you collect / analyze / examine data / information

natural environment

identify the key / major / a significant factor in

you raise complex issues

you use the most effective method for

you conduct / do research

examine / establish the complex structure

you have / propose / formulate / advance a theory that

Verbs:

It is reasonable to assume that

Sth mainly consist of

You define a term

You establish / identify a link / a connection between

sth functions as sth

research indicates that

interpret data / findings / results

sth occurs somewhere (on the planet etc.)

sth requires further investigation

Adjectives:

Available, evident, major, significant, similar to, specific

Vocabulary:

Living creatures = beings

a strange being from another planet

extraterrestrial / alien lifeform

life in outer space

what might aliens look like, if…

alien races / species

be element / sth else (energy etc) + based

Humans are carbon-based lifeforms

if the planet was unlike ours creatures could be silicone based

Environment

it evolved to suit its environment

survive in harsh conditions / extreme environments

adapt to their environments

develop adaptations to cope with...

bizarre adaptations

protect themselves from

temperatures (of…) / acidity (level of…) range / fluctuate from...to

a horse / seal / cockroach-like creature

similar to a horse / an octopus

their bodies are shaped like / resemble an arrow / mashroom etc.

their world has more / less gravity → smaller / larger bodies

Organs

for hunting / gathering / producing sth / navigating (purposes)

it extends its (very long) tongue / hands / tentacles / snouts etc

it inflates / deflates its lungs / lung sucs / airbag etc to go up / down

an organ that releases / produces saliva / debilitating poison / a liquid that… / secretions

it uses ordors instead of words

in place of eyes / nose they use...

it has multiple eyes / feelers / hands etc that allow it to…

it has eyes / legs etc uniquely equipped for the conditions

Energy

take in ~ from one's surroundings

extract ~

eliminate wastes

thermal / solar energy from…

ghastly predators

Information

It would have senses

sight, sound, touch or some other type to obtain information

it has a brain or nervous system to process information

it navigates by emitting and receiving signals / odors etc.

sees in the infrared / ultraviolet spectrum

Means of reproduction

it lays its eggs

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