A Chicago-based group of scientists have once again warned the world is closer than ever to human-made destruction by moving the symbolic “Doomsday Clock” up to 85 seconds to midnight.

The "Doomsday Clock," a metaphor for how close humanity is to self-annihilation, was moved to 85 seconds to midnight on Tuesday, its closest point to catastrophe since the clock made its debut nearly ...

Lasers, devices that emit intense beams of coherent light in specific directions, are widely used in research settings and are central components of various technologies, including optical clocks (i.e ...

The expiration of the last US-Russia nuclear arms control treaty, New START, has raised the spectre of a nuclear arms race ...

NIST confirmed several public time servers lost their atomic reference signal A generator failure interrupted the distribution of America’s primary atomic time scale Some NIST servers responded ...

Nuclear winter is a warning written in the language of climate models and atmospheric chemistry. It's a disaster we should ...

Infleqtion, formerly ColdQuanta, is an under-the-radar quantum computing and sensing company set to go public in the coming weeks via SPAC merger with well-known Wall Street dealmaker Michael Klein’s ...

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“There’s never a dull moment in timekeeping,” says Poonam Arora, senior principal scientist and head of the Indian Standard Time Metrology Division of the National Physical Laboratories (NPL) in Delhi ...

By replacing single atoms with an entangled pair of ions, physicists in Germany have demonstrated unprecedented stability in ...

Jamie Kripke designed an analog clock that he said won’t “scare you awake.” Instead, it plays one of seven melodies ...

In the realm of first-world problems, your cheap wall clock doesn’t keep time, so you have to keep setting it. The answer? Of course, you connect it to NTP and synchronize the clock with an ...