The Doomsday Clock was adjusted below the two-minute mark (at "100 seconds" to midnight) for the first time in 2020, citing ...

The Doomsday Clock is now 10 seconds closer to midnight. Scientists moved the clock's second hand to 90 seconds to midnight on January 24. The clock symbolizes how close humanity is to the apocalypse.

The Doomsday Clock is a project from the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists tracking the odds that the world will end. “Midnight” on the clock is the hypothetical point where the world would end.

Doomsday Clock moves to 90 seconds to midnight, signaling more peril than ever The world is closer to catastrophe than it ever has been, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists said on Tuesday.

The Doomsday Clock is now 89 seconds to midnight, the closest it’s ever been. The clock, established in 1947 by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, is meant to signify how close the world is ...

The atomic scientists' Doomsday Clock is now 75—and threats to civilization still abound. A Cold War icon, the clock conveys scientists’ views on humankind’s risk of destroying itself.

Earth is moving closer to destruction, a science-oriented advocacy group said Tuesday as it advanced its famous “Doomsday Clock” to 89 seconds till midnight, the closest it has ever been.

The changes to what the Doomsday Clock measures also highlight the symbol’s biggest problem. “Midnight” implies a finality: the end-of-the-world hard stop that we associate with nuclear war.

Each year for the past 78 years, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has published a new Doomsday Clock, suggesting just how close – or far – humanity is to destroying itself. The next ...

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists shifted the hands of the symbolic clock to 89 seconds to midnight, citing the threat of climate change, nuclear war and the misuse of artificial intelligence.

"Setting the Doomsday Clock at 89 seconds to midnight is a warning to all world leaders," Mr Holz added. Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine launched Europe's bloodiest conflict since World War Two.