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

Amid reports that Russian military commanders have been discussing using "tactical" nuclear weapons in Ukraine, The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists this morning announced it has already begun ...

Since 1947 -- after the end of World War II and at the beginning of the Cold War -- the Science and Security Board of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists have kept what they call a "Doomsday Clock." ...

The world's first nuclear clocks have ticked. A team of physicists has demonstrated a working timekeeping device regulated not by orbiting electrons — as in conventional atomic clocks — but by ...

Every time you check the time on your phone, make an online transaction, or use a navigation app, you are depending on the precision of atomic clocks. Scientists are developing next-generation atomic ...