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The 2026 Doomsday Clock is ticking closer to midnight, signaling humanity edging to the "closest it has ever been to catastrophe" according to the Atomic Scientists, and the human race destroying ...

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 ...

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 ...

At around 2.35pm on a sunny weekday afternoon, a 19-year-old Blinkit delivery executive picks up his first order of the day from a “dark store” in Ashram – a packet of bread and a few chips – and sets ...

A close friend once described my relationship with time as “loose.” A mere guide or suggestion, say. Yet as I walk up to Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie to interview artist Christian Marclay ahead of ...

I own a digital 24-hour clock (i.e., a military time clock) that displays in HH:MM format. Each digit uses the standard seven-segment display in which seven lights toggle on or off to form numbers, as ...

Kids in elementary school learn—or are supposed to learn—how to add fractions and round numbers. But many students at the University of California, San Diego—a top public university ranked sixth ...

Starting with iOS 26.1, Apple has updated the Clock app icon to work a lot more like an Apple Watch. Since iOS 7, Apple has animated the Clock app icon with the current time when viewed on the home ...

A sharp rise in students entering the University of California system without middle school-level math skills is raising alarms among educators. A new internal report from the University of California ...

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