Last year, shortly after the U.S. presidential election and amid the shifting national mood, Merriam-Webster chose the word ...

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, ...

A stray comet from another star swings past Earth this week in one last hurrah before racing back toward interstellar space.

Two pandas at a Tokyo zoo will be returned to China in January, the Tokyo government said on Monday, potentially leaving ...