(NEXSTAR) – The Doomsday Clock, a concept designed by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists to represent humanity’s proximity ...

The political news these days is enough to make some Chicagoans wish they were a million miles away. But consider this: Even ...

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 ...

Trump administration violated court order by pausing FEMA grants, judge rules A federal judge ruled on Friday that Republican U.S. President Donald Trump's administration violated a court order by ...

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 time of the clock is currently 89 seconds to midnight. The Doomsday Clock is a symbol that represents how close we are to destroying the world with dangerous technologies of our own making. It ...

OPINION: The end of the world is closer today than it was yesterday – but don’t panic. It’s not all doom and gloom; there is ...

TASS/. Scientists have moved the hands of the symbolic Doomsday Clock one second closer to "midnight," Daniel Holtz, Chairman of the Science and Safety Board of the US Bulletin of the Atomic ...

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 ...

Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle is not ready to retire. On Monday, her 78th birthday, Preckwinkle announced she’ll seek a fifth term to lead the nation’s second-most populous ...