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.

Scientists unveiled the 2025 update for the 'Doomsday Clock' today, revealing that the clock moved one second closer to midnight in 2024, a sign that humanity is close to a catastrophic end.

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 – which measures how close humanity is to destroying itself – will get its annual reset on Tuesday, January 28, 2025 at 10 am EST.© Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists ...

The clock’s hands now indicate that the earth is just 89 seconds from midnight — the closest it’s ever been to “doomsday.” The clock was last reset in January 2023, when moved to 90 ...

On Tuesday morning, the Doomsday Clock was set at 89 seconds to midnight, which is the closest it has ever been to midnight in the 78 years since it started running.

During the Cold War in 1991, the clock was set 17 minutes from midnight—the farthest it has ever been. Conversely, 2025's setting at 89 seconds to midnight marks its closest approach.

The Doomsday Clock has edged forward and now stands at 89 seconds to midnight, the closest it has ever been to the marker of global catastrophe. Why It Matters The forward movement of the Doomsday ...

A wall clock typically falls into one of two categories. There are the practical and easy-to-read ones, the most quintessential example being the kind you’d find in a high-school classroom. Then ...

The clock hit two minutes to midnight — the closest it had been since the 1950s — in 2018, due to what scientists described as a breakdown in the international order of nuclear actors and a ...