The Doomsday Clock now stands at 89 seconds to midnight, the closest to catastrophe in its nearly eight-decade history.

The Doomsday Clock is a physical clock, but it does not tell time. It's meant to symbolize how close humanity is to destroying itself. The clock is managed by the Bulletin of the Atomic ...

Scientists warned in their 2025 Doomsday Clock Statement, the new 2025 Clock time signals that "the world is on a course of unprecedented risk, and that continuing on the current path is a form ...

The clock's new time of 89 seconds to midnight was announced on 28 January, moving one second closer than where it had remained for the previous two years. But what does it actually mean?

Each year, the Bulletin's Science and Security Board, in consultation with Nobel laureates, determines the clock's time. "The Doomsday Clock is about urgency, not fear," Rachel Bronson ...