The Doomsday Clock is a metaphor, not a mechanical forecast, but it is built on concrete assessments of global risk. Created in the late 1940s by scientists who had worked on nuclear weapons, it was ...

A group of international scientists who maintain the "Doomsday Clock" have pushed the metaphorical measure of humanity's impending doom to its nearest point yet to imminent collapse, according to the ...

The Doomsday Clock—a symbolic device to signal an array of existential threats to the world since 1947—was recently moved to 85 seconds before midnight, the closest it has ever been to midnight. And ...

They say we are now 85 seconds away from the end of humanity.Hello. I am Yoshitaka Enomoto, an illustrator who loves history.This past January, this news was reported.The remaining time on the ...

The clock moved to 85 seconds to midnight, the closest it has come to catastrophe since its debut 80 years ago.

On 27 January 2026, the hands of the Doomsday Clock – repositioned each year by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists to reflect existential threats facing mankind and our planet – were set to 85 ...

Back in January, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announced its decision regarding the group’s famous Doomsday Clock, a symbol representing the supposed likelihood of a human-made global ...

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 ...

Like most Americans, I was relieved to learn the Doomsday Clock has once again sped up, bringing humanity closer to the end of all things and putting us well within reach of the sweet, welcoming ...