The new Doomsday Clock time has been set by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Here’s what it means.

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 ...

Nuclear weapons, climate change and biological threats are the biggest concerns.

The human race is at its closest point yet to destroying itself, according to a reset of the ominous but symbolic "Doomsday ...

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists set the clock to 85 seconds before midnight, the theoretical point of annihilation.

For many years, cesium atomic clocks have been reliably keeping time around the world. But the future belongs to even more accurate clocks: optical atomic clocks. In a few years' time, they could ...

Every single day, humans rely on hundreds of hidden clocks. GPS location, Internet stability, stock trading, power grid management ... all rely on atomic clocks in order to work. Many of those clocks ...

Which atomic clocks are best? The first time zone, Greenwich Mean Time, was established in the late 1600s to assist sailors before the invention of the train and railway in the mid-1800s expanded the ...

Breakthrough could pave the way for next-generation GPS in drones, smartphones and self-driving cars, scientists say. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

A new comb-like computer chip could be the key to equipping drones, smartphones and autonomous vehicles with military-grade positioning technology that was previously confined to space agencies and ...