With great fanfare last week, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists — the keepers of the Doomsday Clock — inched their symbolic hand to 85 seconds before midnight. Once again, we are told to brace for ...

Time might be even stranger than Einstein imagined. Physicists are now exploring the possibility that a single clock could ...

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Nuclear clocks could be the GOAT: Greatest of all timepieces. If physicists can build them, nuclear clocks would be a brand-new type of clock, one that would keep time based on the physics of atoms’ ...

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With the war on Iran, Ukraine, AI and climate breakdown increasing the likelihood of a nuclear war, the clock stands closer to midnight than ever before. So who decides how many seconds we have left – ...