John P. “Jack” Gould, the Steven G. Rothmeier Distinguished Service Professor of Economics Emeritus and former dean of the ...

University of Chicago psychology professor Shigehiro Oishi has spent his career studying happiness, meaning and what truly ...

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Iconic Doomsday Clock moves one second closer to midnight as global existential threats rage. Clock factors include nuclear ...

The “Doomsday Clock”, which signals the end of humanity when it hits midnight, is only 89 seconds from the milestone. That is the closest it has ever been. It has been 90 seconds away for the previous ...

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

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

The Doomsday Clock, a concept designed by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists to represent humanity’s proximity to a global ...

The Chicago-based Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, which runs the clock, decided to move the clock one second closer to ...

The world depends on immediate action." The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists was founded in 1945 by Albert Einstein, J.

Editor’s note: This story is the first of a four-part Aspen Journalism series detailing Dr. Albert Schweitzer ... in 1949 originated from the University of Chicago with a pledge of more ...