Complacency about the serious challenges the world is facing is not an option. But the idea that we are almost at the point of no return via the Doomsday Clock isn’t helpful.

Physicists confirm a decades-old 2D magnetism theory by observing exotic nanoscale vortex phases in ultrathin material.

The Cold War left many inglorious legacies. The Runit dome is a good example. From the outside, it looks almost too ...

All living creatures are affected by the cycles of celestial objects. Humans have always been locked into the rhythms of sunrise and sunset, the phases of the Moon, and the seasons. We left some of ...

Time is almost up on the way we track each second of the day, with optical atomic clocks set to redefine the way the world measures one second in the near future. Researchers from Adelaide University ...

The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists has set the Doomsday Clock to 85 seconds to midnight. It is the closest the clock has ever been to midnight in its history. The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists said ...

The "Doomsday Clock" was set to 85 seconds to midnight on Jan. 27 — marking the closest it has been to the time that represents apocalypse in its history. “The Doomsday Clock’s message cannot be ...

Atomic scientists set their "Doomsday Clock" on Tuesday closer than ever to midnight, citing aggressive behavior by nuclear powers Russia, China and the United States, fraying nuclear arms control, ...

Humanity continues to move closer to catastrophe, scientists said Tuesday, Jan. 27. The human race is at its closest point yet to destroying itself, according to the reset of the ominous but symbolic ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jon Wolfsthal, director of global risk at the Federation of American Scientists (FAS), Asha George, executive director of the ...

Earlier on Jan. 26, the hands of the Doomsday Clock were set closer to midnight than they've ever been in its history. Citing a worldwide "failure of leadership," the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists ...