The concept comes from the work of Edward Norton Lorenz, a mathematician and meteorologist who defined the butterfly effect as: “The phenomenon that a small alteration in the state of a dynamical ...

When was the Doomsday Clock created? The Doomsday Clock goes back to June 1947, when US artist Martyl Langsdorf was hired to ...

The Doomsday Clock is a metaphor that represents how close humanity is ... But as the publication expanded, its editors decided to try to appeal to a wider audience with a designed cover. Bulletin ...

CHICAGO, Illinois (CNN) --The hands on the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists' Doomsday Clock were moved forward Wednesday to reflect what the group believes is a greater risk of nuclear conflict in ...