The Doomsday Clock, a symbolic timepiece that warns of a catastrophic global event, is ticking closer to midnight than ever ...
The tradition of counting down to the New Year became popular in the 1960s and 1970s. But how did this practice start, and ...
The Doomsday Clock, a powerful symbol of the world's vulnerability ... the hands are set at the most dangerous position ever observed. The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, based in Chicago, assesses ...
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, ...
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Add this to President Biden's regrettable legacies, though it's notable that progressive states accounted for most of the increase. HUD's annual point-in-time survey found that the number of homeless ...
Watchmen remains one of DC Comics’s most iconic intellectual properties. It’s seen its share of television and film ...
The United Kingdom's first quantum clock will enhance the accuracy of navigation, communication, and weapon systems.
In November 1978, Swedish Foreign Minister (and future UN weapons inspector as well as head of the International Atomic Energy Agency) Hans Blix aimed to widen the scope of the proposed NWFZ by ...
The Bulletin’s disruptive technology vertical tracks a wide variety of scientific and technological advances that could—either in the present or the future—pose an existential threat to humanity.