When we visited Yerkes Observatory in 2021, it was closed and faced a daunting road back, yet its director had big plans. It ...

While lectures on the legacies of Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and Harriet Tubman are all important, some educators ...

While lectures on the legacies of Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and Harriet Tubman are all important, some educators (and their students) are eager to learn more about underrepresented ...

People who make a habit of sleeping on the job comprise a secret society of sorts within the U.S. labor force.

The legendary photo of Albert Einstein's tongue, one of the most famous images of the 20th century, will be auctioned with an ...

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists was founded in 1945 by Albert Einstein, J. Robert Oppenheimer and University of Chicago ...

The Doomsday Clock now stands at 89 seconds to midnight reflecting unprecedented global risks including nuclear proliferation ...

Seventy-eight years ago, scientists created a unique sort of timepiece — named the Doomsday Clock — as a symbolic attempt to ...

Witnesses on a few weeks ago, characterized the kratom plant as both a dangerous and sometimes fatal drug and as a safe way to manage chronic pain and help people wean themselves off more dangerous ...

The Doomsday Clock is set every year by experts on the Bulletin’s Science and Security Board in consultation with its Board of Sponsors, which was first established by Albert Einstein in ...

When making the determination, they ask two questions — is humanity safer or at greater risk than last year, and is humanity safer or at greater risk than when the clock was created.