HUD’s annual point-in-time survey found that the number of homeless increased 18% this year and 36% since 2019. Local governments and nonprofits in January counted some 771,480 living in public spaces ...

A few major tests helped calm the city. On March 6, 1999, Ontario Hydro conducted a major test in central Toronto, where engineers set the internal clocks on its equipment to midnight on New Year’s ...

The French astrologer Nostradamus has long been a trendy topic as the clock nears midnight on New Year’s Eve, with the ...

When the clock strikes noon on January 20, 2025, Donald Trump will once again be given launch authority over the U.S.’s ...

The first NYE countdown can arguably be traced to the final seconds of 1957, when prominent radio correspondent Ben Grauer counted down the New Year’s Eve ball drop in New York City’s Times Square, ...

The tradition of counting down to the New Year became popular in the 1960s and 1970s. But how did this practice start, and ...

Smaller nucleoli slow aging, acting as a "mortality timer," while larger nucleoli lead to cell death by destabilizing rDNA. The secret to cellular youth may lie in maintaining a small nucleolus—a ...

After all, 2024 saw the fabled Doomsday Clock stay at the 90 seconds-to-midnight spot for a second year in a row. That’s the ...

Former President Jimmy Carter, a Georgia peanut farmer who vowed to restore morality and truth to politics after an era of ...

Reflecting on the actual Y2K is a reminder that computing’s real risks have less to do with murderous robots—and far more to ...

Critics warn argue that people planning to live through an atomic blast aren't focusing on the real and current dangers posed by nuclear threats.

Under a nondescript metal hatch near the private basketball court, there’s a hidden staircase that leads down into rooms with beds for about 25 people ... Hubbard’s doomsday scenario, global ...