The Doomsday Clock has never been closer to metaphorical midnight. What does it mean?
The Doomsday Clock now stands at 89 seconds to midnight, the closest to catastrophe in its nearly eight-decade history.
2025 'Doomsday Clock': This is how close we are to self-annihilation, scientists say
Scientists and global leaders revealed on Tuesday that the "Doomsday Clock" has been reset to the closest humanity has ever come to self-annihilation.
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Atomic scientists adjust 'Doomsday Clock' closer than ever to midnight
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Atomic scientists on Tuesday moved their "Doomsday Clock" closer to midnight than ever before, citing Russian nuclear threats amid its invasion of Ukraine, tensions in other ...
Physicists Are Using Time Itself to Crack the Dark Matter Puzzle
Scientists have taken a bold step toward understanding dark matter, the invisible force shaping the cosmos. Using atomic ...
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How close is humanity to self-destruction? Doomsday Clock will reveal how bad things are.
Each year for the past 78 years, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has published a new Doomsday Clock, suggesting just how close – or far – humanity is to destroying itself. The next edition of ...
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New Way To Hunt Dark Matter: Precise Atomic Clocks And Lasers
Dark matter is a hypothetical form of matter believed to be everywhere, outnumbering regular matter (what we're made of) 5-to-1. It doesn’t emit or interact with light, so it is invisible to our ...
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Moving from a Doomsday Clock to a Peace Clock
This year’s Doomsday Clock Statement landed like a damp squib in a Trump-swamped corporate news cycle on January 28th. The ...
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Redefining the second: Optical atomic clock achieves record accuracy in comparison measurement
The next generation of atomic clocks "ticks" with the frequency of a laser. This is about 100,000 times faster than the microwave frequencies of the cesium clocks which are generating the second ...
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Chip-scale atomic clock shrinks profile height
A low-noise chip-scale atomic clock (LN-CSAC), the SA65-LN from Microchip, features a profile height of less than 0.5 in. (12 ...
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New technique to detect dark matter using atomic clocks and lasers
A team of international researchers has developed an innovative approach to uncover the secrets of dark matter in the cosmos. They are searching for dark matter using atomic clocks and ...
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Atomic scientists adjust 'Doomsday Clock' closer than ever to midnight
WASHINGTON, Jan 28 (Reuters) - Atomic scientists on Tuesday moved their "Doomsday Clock" closer to midnight than ever before, citing Russian nuclear threats amid its invasion of Ukraine ...