The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announced on Jan. 27 that the hands of the Doomsday Clock moved forward four seconds and now sits at 85 seconds to midnight—the closest the symbolic clock has ...

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

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, Jan 27 (Reuters) - Atomic scientists set their "Doomsday Clock" on Tuesday closer than ever to midnight, citing aggressive behavior by nuclear powers Russia, China and the ...

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

Risk of nuclear war is seen as being the closest it ever has been, due to weapons threats, emergence of AI, and climate crisis.

The Doomsday Clock is now the closest it has ever been to midnight. Scientists have set the symbolic Clock at 85 seconds to ...

Atomic clocks are the best timekeepers humanity's got these days, but scientists are working toward something even better: a ...

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 ...

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists cited risks of nuclear war, climate change, potential misuse of biotechnology and the increasing use of artificial intelligence without adequate controls as it ...

With great fanfare last week, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists — the keepers of the Doomsday Clock — inched their symbolic ...

As well as being useful for creating an optical ion clock, this multi-ion capability could also be exploited to create quantum-computing architectures based on multiple trapped ions. And because the ...