Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the ...

More than 60 residents of Livermore and the surrounding region turned out to a public meeting this week on the local lab's role in a nationwide program to enhance the production of plutonium weapons, ...

Industrial designers Juan Noguera, RIT, and Tom Weis, RISD, redesign the infamous “Doomsday Clock” for the ‘Bulletin of the ...

The Doomsday Clock has been used to examine the world’s vulnerability to global catastrophe for nearly a century.

This week, with wars still raging in Ukraine and the Middle East, escalating climate chaos and increasing biological and AI threats, the nuclear Doomsday Clock has been pushed to just ...

The United States and Russia have pledged their readiness to resume nuclear disarmament talks after years of confrontation, ...

In a statement outlining the change, the Board highlighted three main reasons for “moving the Doomsday Clock from 90 seconds to 89 seconds to midnight.” These include ongoing nuclear risks, ...

On January 28, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists updated the Doomsday Clock from 90 to 89 seconds until "midnight," as ...

Given the limitations of human cognition in long-term planning, AI can serve as a cognitive augmentation tool, helping us ...

If humanity’s existence was a 24-hour clock where midnight represented the apocalypse, then the world is 89 seconds to ...

The other two production sites for the Manhattan Project – Hanford, Washington, and Los Alamos, New Mexico – have numerous ...

Atomic scientists moved their "Doomsday Clock" closer to midnight than ever before, citing Russian nuclear threats amid its ...