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 ...

The "Doomsday Clock," a metaphor for how close humanity is to self-annihilation, was moved to 85 seconds to midnight on Tuesday, its closest point to catastrophe since the clock made its debut nearly ...

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 ...

For all our telescopes and colliders, dark matter has remained an elusive ghost for the better part of a century. It outweighs everything we see by a factor of five, yet it slips past every detector ...

Researchers at the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology have built a compact laser system that suppresses frequency noise by more than 140 decibels, a performance level that could ...

Atomic clocks have long been the gold standard for measuring time and frequency. Among them, optical clocks—using atoms like strontium or aluminum—have reached staggering levels of accuracy, with ...

Risk of nuclear war is seen as being the closest it ever has been, due to weapons threats, emergence of AI, and climate crisis.

Future Market Insights (FMI) estimates the Atomic Clock Market at USD 651.6 million in 2026 and projects it to reach USD 1,281.8 million by 2036, advancing at a 7.0% CAGR. Growth is being propelled by ...