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 ...

For the first time in three years, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (BAS) moved the Doomsday Clock forward by one second ...

When the Doomsday Clock moves closer to midnight, researchers found significant increases in suicide rates, Alzheimer’s disease mortality, and substance-related deaths across a 70-year span.

The Doomsday Clock is a metaphor that represents how close humanity is to self-destruction, due to nuclear weapons and climate change. The clock hands are set by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, ...

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The economic doomsday clock has been reset. Bear growls Over the past year, Wall Street pessimists' reasons for an approaching recession have shifted. First, it was the spike in food and energy ...

If the federal government wants to keep Medicare and Social Security intact for the next 75 years, it will need an extra ...

Extinction is the greatest disaster that humanity must avoid. While that may seem a simple enough task, it is also a ...

The Doomsday Clock was designed by the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists in 1947 to help us understand that the hands of the clock indicate the time in seconds or minutes until midnight, or the time ...

The "Doomsday Clock" has been set at 90 seconds to midnight, closer than ever before to the threat of annihilation. But what is the Doomsday Clock? Who decides where it is set? And what does '90 ...

Langsdorf is perhaps best known for designing the Doomsday Clock in 1947, which became an enduring symbol of the existential threats posed by nuclear weapons. As the clock's hands shift annually t ...