The Doomsday Clock is a metaphor that represents how close humanity is to self-destruction, due to nuclear weapons and climate change. The clock hands are set by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, ...

These three visualizations display some of the kinds of public data that are available in the Bulletin’s three coverage areas: nuclear weapons, climate change, and disruptive technology. The Doomsday ...

In the run-up to the November election, conventional analysis suggested that a Trump victory would mean an additional four ...

The concept comes from the work of Edward Norton Lorenz, a mathematician and meteorologist who defined the butterfly effect ...

i.e., climate change, in 2007. Since its creation, it has undergone 25 revisions to reflect shifts in the world. However, an actual doomsday is not predicted by the clock. Instead, it symbolizes ...

They’ve used the cause of climate change to do everything from mandating which vehicles Americans can drive, limiting their ability to travel, encouraging couples to limit the number of children ...

Scientists have quantified how much climate change has driven the population decline of polar bears living in Canada's Hudson Bay. The clock is set to 89 seconds to "midnight" as scientists and ...

The Doomsday Clock, a composite warning signal formulated ... The clock takes into account climate change, technology and wars, among other things. Before you head to a bomb shelter or a sleepless ...