The Doomsday Clock is a metaphor that represents how close humanity is to self-destruction, due to nuclear weapons and climate change. The clock hands are set by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, ...

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 ...

Dmitry Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council, addressed participants in the educational marathon ...

The political news these days is enough to make some Chicagoans wish they were a million miles away. But consider this: Even ...

In the 55 years since its creation, the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) has endured many challenges, but the world now finds itself at a reckoning point. The Doomsday Clock is set at 89 seconds ...

These three visualizations display some of the kinds of public data that are available in the Bulletin’s three coverage areas: nuclear weapons, climate change, and disruptive technology. The Doomsday ...

China will impose 84% tariffs on U.S. goods from Thursday, up from the 34% previously announced, its finance ministry said on Wednesday, firing the latest salvo in a global trade war sparked by U ...

Clocks on Earth are ticking a bit more regularly thanks to NIST-F4, a new atomic clock at the National Institute of Standards ...

The Doomsday Clock was designed by the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists in 1947 to help us understand that the hands of the clock indicate the time in seconds or minutes until midnight, or the time ...

This scene is rendered unforgettable by a depiction of the Doomsday Clock with its minute hand pointing at 15 seconds to midnight. In real life, the U.S. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists reset ...

At the heart of this change is a new kind of atomic clock that uses light instead of microwaves. This shift means timekeeping could become 1,000 times more accurate than today's standards.