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 new Doomsday Clock time has been set by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Here’s what it means.

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

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

The clock is a symbolic way to show the public how close scientists believe the world is to a human-made apocalypse.

The most precise clocks ever built are now testing Einstein, hunting dark matter, and reshaping how we define time itself. In ...

Nuclear weapons, climate change and biological threats are the biggest concerns.

An impending apocalypse is coming faster than we thought, after atomic scientists moved the hands of the "Doomsday Clock" ...

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists set the clock to 85 seconds before midnight, the theoretical point of annihilation.

The human race is at its closest point yet to destroying itself, according to a reset of the ominous but symbolic "Doomsday ...

For decades, atomic clocks have provided the most stable means of timekeeping. They measure time by oscillating in step with the resonant frequency of atoms, a method so accurate that it serves as the ...

Time will no longer be imposed upon us by a cesium fountain clock at the National Institute of Standards and Technology,” ...