Many of you have heard of the Doomsday Clock — a decades-old analogue clock meant to symbolize how close we are to nuclear catastrophe. However far we are from midnight, we are told, is how close we ...

You might have heard that counting the seconds after thunder can tell you how close a storm is. That’s not exactly true, but there is a way to judge that distance. It requires both seeing lightning ...

A man named [Jim Valvano] once said “There are 86,400 seconds in a day. It’s up to you to decide what to do with them.” — while we couldn’t tell you who [Jim Valvano] was without a google search*, his ...

A Godstone resident whose family was evacuated for more than 240 days due to the sinkhole in the village's High Street said he was "counting the seconds" until work was finished. Rez Miri's family was ...