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Doomsday Clock moves to 85 seconds to midnight as nuclear tensions rise, AI grows fast and climate threats intensify globally

The Doomsday Clock was set closer to midnight than it’s ever been before on Jan. 27. The Doomsday Clock is a symbol created by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists in June 1947 to show how close ...
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The world's first nuclear clock can detect changes in nature’s fundamental constants

Scientists have taken another giant step towards building the most precise clock ever imagined—one that could display not only the passage of time, but shifting rules of nature itself. An ...
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Doomsday Clock reset to historical closest time to catastrophe

The Doomsday Clock is the closest it has ever been to midnight, after it was officially reset by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ Science and Security Board (SASB) on Tuesday. The clock ...
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EDITORIAL | Ticking ...: Nuclear scientists to reset Doomsday Clock this month

Since 1947 -- after the end of World War II and at the beginning of the Cold War -- the Science and Security Board of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists have kept what they call a "Doomsday Clock." ...
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A Chip that Keeps Time (Almost) Like an Atomic Clock

For decades, atomic clocks have provided the most stable means of timekeeping. They measure time by oscillating in step with the resonant frequency of atoms, a method so accurate that it serves as the ...