WASHINGTON — Atomic scientists on Tuesday kept their “Doomsday Clock” set as close to midnight as ever before, citing Russia’s actions on nuclear weapons amid its invasion of Ukraine, nuclear-armed ...

Despite a 2024 so far marked with serious conflicts, climate uncertainty and the rapid ascension of AI technologies, the famous Doomsday Clock has remained paused at 90 seconds to midnight, the same ...

For more than a century, dinosaur eggs have offered haunting snapshots of ancient life, from curled embryos to trampled nests ...

Researchers have found that fossilized dinosaur eggshells contain a natural clock that can reveal when dinosaurs lived. The ...

If midnight is a metaphor for the end of the world, we’re just ninety seconds away, according to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ Science and Security ...

An atomic clock that could transform deep-space travel has successfully completed its first test run in space. NASA’s Deep Space Atomic Clock, which launched on a satellite in June 2019, outperformed ...

Researchers develop a method to count thorium-229 nuclear ticks, paving the way for high-precision nuclear clocks and sensors.

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. A towering pendulum clock loses or gains around a minute every month ...

Scientists want to increase their understanding of circadian rhythms, those internal 24-hour biological clock cycles of sleeping and waking that occur in organisms, ranging from humans to plants to ...