In many ways, 2025 resembled the Hollywood film Back to the Future—and not only because Donald Trump returned to the White ...

NIST traced the problem to its Boulder, Colorado campus, where a prolonged utility power outage disrupted operations. The outage occurred during high winds that damaged power lines and triggered ...

Denver broke a heat record for the third time in December on Christmas Eve, and could break the record again on Christmas.

"As the typical uncertainty of time transfer over the public Internet is on the order of one millisecond (1/1000th of a ...

During the outage, some clocks lost connection to NIST’s measurement and distribution systems, resulting in a delay of 4.8 microseconds in NIST UTC, NIST spokeswoman Rebecca Jacobson confirmed. To put ...

A small group of scientists and policy experts meet behind closed doors in Chicago to decide how close humanity is to ...

According to World Nuclear Association, nuclear power accounts for around 9% of global electricity generation, with over 31 ...

Behind closed doors with the experts who study the end of the world—and what they know about humanity’s capacity for survival ...

Retro 1950s style is quietly slipping back into contemporary homes, not as kitsch, but as a comforting counterpoint to sleek ...

In the 80th year of the nuclear age, with just 89 seconds left on the Doomsday Clock, every nuclear challenge is trending in ...

Researchers are looking for new ways to improve timekeeping because even small gains in stability can help physicists discover subtle physical effects. The thorium-229 nuclear clock is a newer venture ...