The alarm is once again sounding, and it’s louder than ever. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ Doomsday Clock has reached 85 ...

The "Doomsday Clock" is a metaphor for how close humanity is to self-annihilation.

From a design perspective, the Doomsday Clock is remarkably economical. Four dots. Two hands. The universal language of ...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, Jan 27 (Reuters) - Atomic scientists set their "Doomsday Clock" on Tuesday closer than ever to ...

“The Doomsday Clock’s message cannot be clearer,” the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists CEO Alexandra Bell said in a ...

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists now says humanity is a metaphorical 85 seconds to global disaster.

Time is almost up on the way we track each second of the day, with optical atomic clocks set to redefine the way the world ...

Atomic clocks are the most accurate timekeepers we have, losing only seconds across billions of years. But apparently that’s not accurate enough – nuclear clocks could steal their thunder, speeding up ...

The way time is measured is on the edge of a historic upgrade. At the heart of this change is a new kind of atomic clock that uses light instead of microwaves. This shift means timekeeping could ...

For many years, cesium atomic clocks have been reliably keeping time around the world. But the future belongs to even more accurate clocks: optical atomic clocks. In a few years' time, they could ...

Scientists have developed the most precise and accurate atomic clock to date – if you ran it for twice the current age of the universe, it would only be off by one second. This could not only improve ...

That is the closest it has ever been in the history of this symbolic portrayal of the state of the world. Since 1947, the Doomsday Clock has metaphorically represented the risk that we will succumb to ...