Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jon Wolfsthal, director of global risk at the Federation of American Scientists (FAS), Asha George, executive director of the ...

A Chicago-based group of scientists have once again warned the world is closer than ever to human-made destruction by moving the symbolic “Doomsday Clock” up to 85 seconds to midnight.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Earlier on Jan. 26, the hands of the Doomsday Clock were set closer to midnight than they've ever been in its history. Citing a ...

A new atomic clock is one of the world’s best timekeepers, researchers say — and after years of development, the “fountain”-style clock is now in use helping keep official U.S. time. Known as NIST-F4, ...

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has set its Doomsday Clock to 85 seconds to midnight, the closest humanity has come to ...

Breakthrough could pave the way for next-generation GPS in drones, smartphones and self-driving cars, scientists say.

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 measures one second in the near future. Researchers from Adelaide University ...

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

L-R: Dr Ashby Hilton, Dr Elizaveta (Liz) Klantsataya and Dr Sarah Watzdorf working on a prototype of a next-generation portable atomic clock. Time is almost up on the way we track each second of the ...

WASHINGTON — Atomic scientists set their "Doomsday Clock" on Tuesday closer than ever to midnight, citing aggressive behavior by nuclear powers Russia, China and the United States, fraying nuclear ...