New Clock May End Time As We Know It Scientists working to create the perfect atomic clock have a fundamental problem: Right now, on the ceiling, ...

The clock has moved 23 times before, getting as far away as 11:43 in 1991 thanks to successful nuclear disarmament talks with the US and the USSR. But that was more an outlier than anything else.

The Doomsday Clock hasn’t always spelled doom and gloom since it was first introduced in the 1940s. Back in 1991, it was set at a whopping 17 minutes before midnight.

The Doomsday Clock, a symbolic countdown to the world’s end, stands still at three minutes until midnight, scientists announced Tuesday. It remains at the position it moved to one year ago ...

The last time the world was considered so close to doomsday was in 1953 when the United States and the Soviet Union were in a nuclear arms race.

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 ...

The Doomsday Clock hasn’t always spelled doom and gloom since it was first introduced in the 1940s. Back in 1991, it was set at a whopping 17 minutes before midnight.

It's one of the most accurate clocks on the planet: an atomic clock that uses oscillations in the element cesium to count out 0.0000000000000001 second at a time.

The Doomsday Clock hasn’t always spelled doom and gloom since it was first introduced in the 1940s. Back in 1991, it was set at a whopping 17 minutes before midnight.