The counter, on the other hand, must change—otherwise the clock is useless. "This means that every clock must be connected to an irreversible process," says Florian Meier from TU Wien.

A clock network would allow geodesists to compare the ticking of clocks all over the world. They could then use the variations in time to map Earth’s gravitational field much more precisely, and ...

The Doomsday Clock of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, set at 89 seconds to midnight, is displayed during a news conference at the United States Institute of Peace, Tuesday, January 28, 2025 ...

The group started the Doomsday Clock two years later. The Clock's original setting in 1947 was seven minutes to midnight. It has since been set backward eight times and forward 18 times.

The Doomsday Clock is a metaphor for how close the world is to being inhabitable for humanity. Scientists just set the new time for 2025.

Each year for the past 78 years, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has published a new Doomsday Clock, suggesting just how close – or far – humanity is to destroying itself. The next ...

Travel data provider Hopper Inc., one of Canada’s largest closely held technology companies, is eyeing a public listing that its founder believes will value the business at as much as $10 billion.

For example, “it’s almost 4 o’clock” means the same thing as “it is almost 4 according to the clock.” According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the phrase of the clock can trace its ...

While their nuclear clock is still a work in progress, once realized it could transform not only timekeeping but also the study of physics, even affecting how scientists investigate the fabric of ...