Fans of Countdown will be all too familiar with the iconic jingle that rings out as its clock ticks closer to the 30-second ...

The clock was initially set at seven minutes to midnight and has moved 25 times since then. It can move backwards and forwards, with movement away from midnight showing that people can make positive ...

But where did the countdown — those famed ten seconds of here we go! that seem to mark the point of no return — come from? Doesn’t it all seem a little theatrical for scientists?

Good news, everyone! Now you can have an ongoing existential crisis, every second of your ever-dwindling life with this personal life countdown timer. Why would anyone want to be confronted by a ...

Rather than in minutes, the countdown of the Doomsday Clock, which symbolizes the time until Earth's destruction, could now start in a matter of only 100 seconds, according to scientists. “ ...

There were eight minutes to prevent one of the worst air disasters in US history that saw a US Army helicopter collide with an American Airlines plane carrying 64 people and splitting it in half. An ...