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

However, an actual doomsday is not predicted by the clock. Instead, it symbolizes the possibility of a worldwide disaster caused by humans, with midnight serving as a metaphor for such an occurrence.

In the run-up to the November election, conventional analysis suggested that a Trump victory would mean an additional four ...

Along with researching gravitational waves, Holz heads the Science and Security Board at the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists ...

North Korea has major ambitions as a nuclear power and keeps building better missiles. So how long would it take for a North ...

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 ...

In 1947, the organization created the Doomsday Clock, a symbolic representation of how close humanity is to destruction, measured in minutes to midnight. Disruptive technologies, biological ...

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 ...

From ‘The Day the Earth Stood Still’ and ‘Planet of the Apes’ to ‘Deep Impact’ and ‘Don’t Look Up’, nothing seems to bring ...