The Doomsday Clock is still at 90 seconds to midnight. But what does it mean, how does an Oscar contender come into it, how doomed are we really, and where have you heard of the clock before?

The Doomsday Clock moves closer to midnight as analysts debate nuclear deterrence effectiveness amid rising tensions with ...

In a statement about the 2025 Doomsday Clock, the organization explained the dire circumstances that went into the decision. “In 2024, humanity edged ever closer to catastrophe.

When U.S. President Donald Trump and U.S. Vice President JD Vance angrily berated Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky ...

Scientists set Doomsday clock closer to midnight amid climate change, Ukraine invasion For three years, the hands of the world's Doomsday clock were set at 100 seconds to midnight.

The Doomsday Clock now stands at 89 seconds to midnight, the closest to catastrophe in its nearly eight-decade history. Here's a look at how — and why — it's moved.

The Doomsday Clock now stands at 90 seconds to midnight, the closest it’s ever been, thanks mostly to Russia’s war on Ukraine and the rapidly escalating effects of climate change.

The Doomsday Clock, created in 1947, is a metaphor to warn humanity about how close we are to destroying the world by our own doing, according to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.

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.

Topline The hands of the Doomsday Clock, used by top scientists to assess how close humanity is to self-annihilation, moved forwards to 90 seconds to midnight on Tuesday, the highest threat level ...

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists hold a news conference to announce that the Doomsday Clock has been reset to show three minutes until midnight, in Washington on Jan. 22, 2015.

The clock remains closer to destruction than at any point since it was created in 1947. The 2022 Doomsday Clock statement explains that the “decision does not, by any means, suggest that the ...