Symbolic clock is currently set at 5 minutes to midnight. Jan. 14, 2010— -- Is humanity approaching an apocalypse? Today, a group of international scientists will move the hands of the ...

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists was founded in 1945 by Albert Einstein and J. Robert Oppenheimer, along with scientists from the University of Chicago, the organization’s website explains.

One example is the atomic clock, which uses the quantum properties of atoms to measure time much more accurately than would be possible with conventional clocks.