Quasicrystals are orderly structures that never repeat. Scientists just showed they can exist in space and time.

Most nuclear energy is thermal. All that complex nuclear physics and chemistry serve merely to create steam that spins a turbine, the same as any combustion-based power plant does. But what if you ...

Wars, climate change, disruptive technologies and the rise of autocracy over the past year prompted scientists to set the clock at 85 seconds to midnight. Wars, climate change, disruptive technologies ...

The Doomsday Clock moved to 85 seconds to midnight, the closest ever, due to rising threats from nuclear weapons, climate change and disinformation. The "Doomsday Clock" which represents how near ...

Humanity continues to move closer to catastrophe, scientists said Tuesday, Jan. 27. The human race is at its closest point yet to destroying itself, according to the reset of the ominous but symbolic ...

Atomic Scientists Set 'Doomsday Clock' Closer to Midnight Than Ever By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, Jan 27 (Reuters) - Atomic scientists set their "Doomsday Clock" on Tuesday closer than ever to midnight, ...

At the dawn of the nuclear age, scientists created the Doomsday Clock as a symbolic representation of how close humanity is to destroying the world. On Tuesday, nearly eight decades later, the clock ...

For many years, cesium atomic clocks have been reliably keeping time around the world. But the future belongs to even more accurate clocks: optical atomic clocks. In a few years' time, they could ...

“Existential challenges abound.” So reads the executive summary of a new report from Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism about journalism and technology trends in 2026. The Reuters Institute ...

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is little more than a decade older than the field of artificial intelligence, whose birth can arguably be traced back to the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on ...