Abstract: I develop inverse scattering methods for velocity reconstruction in the subsurface, based on multiple scattering theory, Gaussian beams and nonlinear Born approximation. This method is based ...

It is a term you might have heard more often this year. Canada has officially chosen its first-ever “Word of the Year,” and experts from Queen’s University helped make the call. Jesse Reynolds has ...

Merriam-Webster selected ‘slop’ as its 2025 Word of the Year, defining it as low-quality AI-generated digital content that increasingly floods the internet. PCWorld reports this AI-related definition ...

Merriam-Webster likens the word “slop” to terms like “slime”, “sludge” and “muck”, and says it conveys a wet, unpleasant sound. Something you’d rather not touch. Over the year, the word is considered ...

The American dictionary defines slop as “digital content of low quality that is produced usually in quantity by means of artificial intelligence.” The human editors of the publisher said that the slop ...

The editors at US dictionary Merriam-Webster – all of them verified as human beings, not computer-generated simulations – picked "slop" as the 2025 Word of the Year, nodding to a year in which AI and ...

1 p.m. Oct. 31, 2025: This story updated with additional comment. If you’ve spent any time around kids, teenagers or the internet in the last year, you’ve probably heard the phrase 67. Kids randomly ...

LONDON — Oxford University Press has named “rage bait’’ as its word of the year, capturing the internet zeitgeist of 2025. The phrase refers to online content that is “deliberately designed to elicit ...

Oxford University Press is sending wordsmiths into a rage following the announcement of its controversial choice for the 2025 Word of the Year. The largest university press house in the world, the ...

A seemingly easy math puzzle making the rounds on the internet has left people scratching their heads as it requires some clever thinking. The brainteaser, that was shared on X this week by user ...

If you’ve ever sworn it feels like you know Taylor Swift on a personal level, Cambridge Dictionary has a word for that feeling: "parasocial." That’s the publisher’s 2025 word of the year, announced ...