The film discusses the pivotal role of physicist Enrico Fermi during World War II, particularly in the development of nuclear energy and the atomic bomb. It details his collaboration with other ...

The countdown was established in 1947 by Albert Einstein, J Robert Oppenheimer and University of Chicago scientists, who were working on the Manhattan Project to design and build the first atomic ...

Bulletin of Atomic Scientists’ puts clock at 89 seconds from nuclear apocalypse, closer to ‘midnight’ than even during the Cuban Missile Crisis ...

Juan Noguera, an industrial design professor at Rochester Institute of Technology, stands in the university's design shop.

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists was founded in December 1945 by Albert Einstein, J. Robert Oppenheimer and University of Chicago scientists. The Doomsday Clock was created in 1947 to ...

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

Today, the Doomsday Clock was set to 89 seconds to midnight, signaling that experts fear we are dangerously close to a global ...

The clock hands are set by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, a group formed by Manhattan Project scientists at the University of Chicago who ... Leo Szilard and Albert Einstein were the two ...

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists was founded in 1945 by Albert Einstein, J. Robert Oppenheimer, and University of Chicago scientists who helped develop the first atomic weapons in the ...

For the first time in three years, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moved the Doomsday Clock forward by one second.