The Bulletin created the Doomsday Clock two years later to convey man-made threats to human existence and the planet. The Clock has become a universally recognized indicator of the world's ...

The decades-old international symbol, described by the University of Chicago-based nonprofit the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists as a metaphor that shows how close the planet is to reaching "human ...

T he hands of the symbolic Doomsday Clock are set at 89 seconds to midnight - closer to global catastrophe than ever before. The Doomsday Clock, or the Nuclear War Clock, represen ...

The clock is now set to 89 seconds to midnight ... from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. Some of the issues considered global threats to humanity include the use of nuclear ...

As a next step, the researchers are trying to figure out exactly how the parasite and human clocks ‘communicate’ with each other so that their cycles line up. “There have to be some molecular signals ...

Robert Oppenheimer and University of Chicago scientists. The Doomsday Clock was created in 1947 to conceptualize the threat to human existence and the planet. Each year, experts on the Bulletin ...

We then highlight recent findings from genetic studies of human circadian disorders, which illustrate the striking conservation of clock-gene function in model organisms and humans, and we also ...