When the Doomsday Clock was created in 1947 ... In 1991, the time that was furthest from midnight was 17 minutes. Then, for the first time since its creation, the Bulletin took into account ...

The Doomsday Clock is a symbolic timepiece ... This brought the clock back by seven seconds. The furthest the clock has been from midnight was 17 minutes. The clock was created in 1947 by the ...

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 ...

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists recently pushed its famed Doomsday Clock to 89 seconds to midnight, the closest ever to humanity’s destruction. To his credit, President Donald Trump has ...

Holz heads the Science and Security Board at the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists responsible for setting the legendary “Doomsday Clock,” which ticks closer to midnight as the risk of Armageddon ...

Many scientists say “subcritical” experiments and computer simulations make nuclear weapons testing unnecessary.

Behind the headlines, and largely unreported, the basic measures of human well-being have continued to improve in recent ...

Original story: Seconds after midnight, SpaceX is scheduled to launch ... right below our countdown clock. Liftoff is scheduled in four minutes from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.