WASHINGTON — Atomic scientists on Tuesday kept their “Doomsday Clock” set as close to midnight as ever before, citing Russia’s actions on nuclear weapons amid its invasion of Ukraine, nuclear-armed ...

Scientists from MIT have developed what they believe is the most accurate atomic clock ever constructed. The clock, which utilizes quantum entanglement of atoms and a different element than most ...

For more than a century, dinosaur eggs have offered haunting snapshots of ancient life, from curled embryos to trampled nests ...

If midnight is a metaphor for the end of the world, we’re just ninety seconds away, according to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ Science and Security ...

We have bad news: Humanity is inching closer and closer to its doom. That's the upshot from the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, a group of experts who routinely assess the state of the world and how ...

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Despite a 2024 so far marked with serious conflicts, climate uncertainty and the rapid ascension of AI technologies, the famous Doomsday Clock has remained paused at 90 seconds to midnight, the same ...

Our body has an internal biological or “circadian” clock, which cycles daily and is synchronized with solar time. A growing number of findings show how our biological clocks greatly influence human ...

Every year, the scientist world watchers at the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists update the status of its Doomsday Clock, a metaphor for how near humanity is to meeting a catastrophic end. The closer ...

Scientists want to increase their understanding of circadian rhythms, those internal 24-hour biological clock cycles of sleeping and waking that occur in organisms, ranging from humans to plants to ...

A monster electronic clock, the last word in precision timers, went into operation last week at the Bell Telephone Laboratories in Murray Hill, N.J. The secret of the new clock’s accuracy is a set of ...