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.

Can a simple piece of graphic design save the world?

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

“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 ...

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 ...

Researchers at the UK’s National Physical Laboratory (NPL) have created a tiny atomic fountain ...

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 ...