A monster electronic clock, the last word in precision timers, went into operation last week at the Bell Telephone Laboratories in Murray Hill, N.J. The secret of the new clock’s accuracy is a set of ...

A research team has examined the complex workings of cyanobacteria and can now better comprehend what drives its circadian clock. The team, led by researchers from the Institute for Molecular Science, ...

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The oldest fossilised remains of complex animals appear suddenly in the fossil record, and as if from nowhere, in rocks that ...

Our body has an internal biological or “circadian” clock, which cycles daily and is synchronized with solar time. A growing number of findings show how our biological clocks greatly influence human ...

Physicists have started the countdown on developing a new generation of timepieces capable of shattering records by providing accuracy of up to one second in 300 billion years, or about 22 times the ...

If midnight is a metaphor for the end of the world, we’re just ninety seconds away, according to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ Science and Security ...

WASHINGTON, Jan 24 (Reuters) - Atomic scientists set the "Doomsday Clock" closer to midnight than ever before on Tuesday, saying threats of nuclear war, disease, and climate volatility have been ...

The hypothetical clock's hands mark our nearness to annihilation. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Doomsday is as close today as ...

Despite a 2024 so far marked with serious conflicts, climate uncertainty and the rapid ascension of AI technologies, the famous Doomsday Clock has remained paused at 90 seconds to midnight, the same ...

The Climate Clock is on display in Manhattan's Union Square as part of the city's Climate Week. Photograph by Ben Wolf Artists Gan Golan and Andrew Boyd want the world to realize that human ...