Creating and sustaining fusion reactions—essentially recreating star-like conditions on Earth—is extremely difficult, and ...

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Humanity is closer to destroying itself, according to atomic scientists who revealed on Tuesday that the famous “Doomsday Clock” was set to 89 seconds to midnight — the closest it has ever been.

Seventy-eight years ago, scientists created a unique sort of timepiece — named the Doomsday Clock — as a symbolic attempt to gauge how close humanity is to destroying the world. On Tuesday ...

Scientists are pioneering an underwater living space and hope to have permanent bases underwater in 2027, as ITV News' Science Correspondent Martin Stew reports Oceans cover two-thirds of our ...

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By recording when bees entered and exited their hives, scientists from Penn State University (PSU) discovered that, while most journeys last only a few minutes, a minority of bees can spend up to ...

Scientists said we haven't made enough progress addressing existential threats. Scientists and global leaders revealed on Tuesday that the "Doomsday Clock" has been reset to the closest humanity ...

Doctors have begun the first global study of why some people with cancer beat the odds and survive so much longer than expected. Many cancer specialists have anecdotal stories of patients who have ...

There's a solid consensus among scientists on the question, according to a new survey. It’s easy to see why. Headlines such as “We’re probably not close” or “Nobody knows” aren’t very clickable. But ...

WASHINGTON, Jan 28 (Reuters) - Atomic scientists on Tuesday moved their "Doomsday Clock" closer to midnight than ever before, citing Russian nuclear threats amid its invasion of Ukraine ...

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