The clock hands are set by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, a group formed by Manhattan Project scientists at the University of Chicago who helped build the atomic bomb but protested using it ...

The Doomsday Clock now stands at 89 seconds to midnight, the closest to catastrophe in its nearly eight-decade history.

In simple terms, that assertion is correct, but for those with an expertise in the field, the longer answer to who did it ...

The group was founded two years earlier by University of Chicago scientists who had helped develop the first nuclear weapons for the Manhattan Project. Historically, the ominous clock measured the ...

President Trump's confidante Steve Bannon pleaded guilty Tuesday to defrauding New Yorkers who donated to We Build the Wall, an online fundraiser for Trump's signature project during his first term, ...

will oversee the $16 billion project to build a new two-rail tunnel between North Jersey and Manhattan beneath the Hudson River and then repair the existing, century-old tunnel that is failing ...

Robert Oppenheimer, and University of Chicago scientists who helped develop the first atomic weapons in the Manhattan Project. The Bulletin created the Doomsday Clock two years later to convey ...