As you read this, humanity is merely 85 seconds away from disaster. This week, leading experts set the Doomsday Clock, a stark symbol of scientific worries about humanity’s, well, doom. Wars, climate ...

On Jan. 27, 2026, the Doomsday Clock moved to 85 seconds to midnight—the closest it has ever been. What exactly is this clock, and more importantly, what does this mean for the world? The Bulletin of ...

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, ...

Earth is closer than it's ever been to destruction as Russia, China, the U.S. and other countries become “increasingly aggressive, adversarial, and nationalistic,” a science-oriented advocacy group ...