President Donald Trump has fired Attorney General Pam Bondi, a move that comes amid growing scrutiny over whether pressure from conservative media voices and hi Education Dept. saves taxpayers $1 ...

The "Doomsday Clock" which represents how near humanity is to catastrophe moved closer than ever to midnight on Tuesday as concerns grow over nuclear weapons, climate change and disinformation. The ...

For the first time, an international team of physicists has successfully harnessed a rare orbital transition in atoms of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jon Wolfsthal, director of global risk at the Federation of American Scientists (FAS), Asha George, executive director of the ...

Physicists have developed a highly precise and ultra-sensitive atomic clock based on ytterbium, which ...

Earlier on Jan. 26, the hands of the Doomsday Clock were set closer to midnight than they've ever been in its history. Citing a worldwide "failure of leadership," the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists ...

This is the third time that the clock has been moved closer to midnight in the past five years. “Every second counts, and we ...

Time is almost up on the way we track each second of the day, with optical atomic clocks set to redefine the way the world measures one second in the near future. Researchers from Adelaide University ...

To find out how clock accuracy is verified and which reference is used for comparison, we visited the Belarusian State Institute of Metrology (BelGIM), where most of the national standards are kept.

WASHINGTON — Atomic scientists set their "Doomsday Clock" on Tuesday closer than ever to midnight, citing aggressive behavior by nuclear powers Russia, China and the United States, fraying nuclear ...