A crowd-sourced search for alien intelligence called SETI@Home is in its final stages, analyzing 100 radio signals of ...

"Gerrymander," "performative" and "touch grass" were also popular words users of the dictionary looked up in the past year. By Etan Vlessing Canada Bureau Chief In a world of digital noise and clutter ...

“Slop,” a term used to describe low-quality digital content, has been named word of the year by the Merriam-Webster dictionary. The dictionary defines slop as “digital content of low quality that is ...

Creepy, zany and demonstrably fake content is often called “slop.” The word’s proliferation online, in part thanks to the widespread availability of generative artificial intelligence (AI), landed it ...

An assortment of absurd, useful and funny words and phrases entered the vernacular this year. How well do you know them? By Miya Lee and Kendall Blomfield By the end of 2024, words like slop, brat, ...

Macy is a writer on the AI Team. She covers how AI is changing daily life and how to make the most of it. This includes writing about consumer AI products and their real-world impact, from ...

Exoplanet Beta Pictoris b can be seen moving around its star in this 17-year timelapse created using "AI-driven image-processing techniques," according to Northwestern University. Gemini Observatory ...

AI’s impact on our social media feeds has not gone unnoticed by one of America’s top dictionaries. Amidst the onslaught of content that has swept the web over the past 12 months, Merriam-Webster ...

We saw it on our phones. We ate it in our bowls. This year, “slop” was everywhere. It was so ubiquitous that it’s been named Merriam-Webster’s word of the year. Merriam-Webster, the oldest dictionary ...

As 2025 comes to a close, Merriam-Webster is marking an annual tradition. On Dec. 15, the leading expert in language announced that “slop” had earned the title of word of the year for 2025. In case ...