Earlier on Jan. 26, the hands of the Doomsday Clock were set closer to midnight than they've ever been in its history. Citing a worldwide "failure of leadership," the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists ...

Later this week, a group of well-trained experts will tell the world just how close to all-out annihilation we really are. The Doomsday Clock, run by the non-profit Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, will ...

The 2026 Doomsday Clock is ticking closer to midnight, signaling humanity edging to the "closest it has ever been to catastrophe" according to the Atomic Scientists, and the human race destroying ...

Have the past year's events brought us closer to doomsday? We'll find out next week when scientists announce whether they will be moving the hands of the "Doomsday Clock" in 2026. The clock, which ...

The Doomsday Clock is closer to midnight than ever before, in what appears to be an ominous warning about the state of our world. Released every year by The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, this ...

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announced on Jan. 27 that the hands of the Doomsday Clock moved forward four seconds and now sits at 85 seconds to midnight—the closest the symbolic clock has ...

CHICAGO -- At the dawn of the nuclear age, scientists created the Doomsday Clock as a symbolic representation of how close humanity is to destroying the world. On Tuesday, nearly eight decades later, ...

The Doomsday Clock—a symbolic device to signal an array of existential threats to the world since 1947—was recently moved to 85 seconds before midnight, the closest it has ever been to midnight. And ...

The world is closer to catastrophe than it has ever been, at least according to the scientists who maintain the Doomsday Clock. This year, the symbolic clock was set to 85 seconds to midnight, marking ...