The Doomsday clock was set at 89 seconds to midnight on Tuesday morning, putting it the closest the world has ever been to what scientists deem "global catastrophe." The decades-old international ...

In 2018, amid increasing global tensions, scientists moved it back to two minutes to midnight, and it has been creeping closer in the time since. For almost all of its history, the clock has moved ...

The clock was set farthest from midnight in 1991 ... of climate change had increased over the past year, which was almost certainly the hottest on record. The growth in solar and wind energy ...

The clock is ticking on humanity. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has moved its Doomsday Clock forward for 2025, announcing that it is now set to 89 seconds to midnight –— the closest it ...

Knowing they would almost certainly give up a touchdown ... So compelling was the idea of the hands of a clock, inching toward the midnight moment when the missiles would launch, that the classic ...