A new study investigated the mortality and mental health correlates of the iconic Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists' Doomsday Clock.

The metaphorical clock measures how close humanity is to self-destruction, because of nuclear disaster, climate change, AI ...

Since 1947, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (BAS) has used the metaphor of the Doomsday Clock as a means of communicating how close the human species is to self-imposed annihilation, represented ...

Two bills, one in the U.S. Senate and one in the U.S. House, seek to make daylight saving time permanent. Both remain in ...

The challenge here is to shrink these systems down enough, so they actually fit in applications where they'd be most useful.

In 2025, Daylight Saving Time officially begins on Sunday, March 9, at 2 a.m. That’s when we’ll “spring forward,‘’ as the ...

A new study in Physical Review Letters has used atomic clocks to study relativistic effects in interacting quantum systems.

For over a century, physicists have grappled with one of the most profound questions in science: How do the rules of quantum ...

Reversing the polarity on the neutron flow. Britain's top boffins—nicknamed the "Time Lords"—are racing against the clock to save the country from a £1.4 billion-a-day threat. The team is developing ...

In an age when the history of music streams for pennies and its soundtrack now filters through any willing artist, the 43rd ...

Optical atomic clocks have the potential to improve timekeeping and GPS accuracy by a factor of 1,000, enhancing the ...