University of Chicago professor Daniel Holz is one of the people who moved the Doomsday Clock forward last month. He's the ...

Why not reduce nuclear arsenals from thousands into the hundreds, and divert savings toward fighting hunger and poverty?

The Doomsday Clock, which has been used to examine the world’s vulnerability to global catastrophe for nearly a century, has moved one second closer to midnight. On Jan. 28, the Bulletin of the ...

It was a time when the Cold War was at its height – the Doomsday Clock near midnight – and the doomed War on Drugs was raging. The science around genetically modified organisms was in its infancy.

Despite being over 50 years old, the Minuteman III remains critical due to delays in its replacement—the LGM-35A Sentinel. Originally expected to phase in by the 2030s, Sentinel faces cost overruns ...

Simply put, midnight on the Doomsday Clock would mark the start of a world drastically different from the one we know today—one shaped by fear, survival, and loss. Nuclear de-escalation through ...

On Jan. 28, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moved its Doomsday Clock one second closer to midnight, closer than ever before in its 78-year history, to 89 seconds before midnight in 2025 from ...

For nearly 80 years, the Doomsday Clock has served as a chilling symbol of humanity's proximity to catastrophe. Now, it has been reimagined—blending traditional craftsmanship with AI and 3D ...

A new AI assistant is here to make life easy for people but the Doomsday Clock has moved along. Find these and more news stories in the quiz. Credit: Collage by SBS News via Getty Images and AAP ...

The Doomsday Clock is a visual metaphor created ... Originally set at seven minutes to midnight, in 2023 it advanced to 90 seconds to midnight, largely due to nuclear threats from war in Ukraine.

By Katrina Miller At the end of January, the keepers of the Doomsday Clock announced that the world was 89 seconds to midnight, a metaphor for our proximity to extinction. That’s one second ...

This week the “Doomsday Clock” was set closer to midnight than ever. Russian nuclear threats following that country’s invasion of Ukraine, growing tensions in other parts of the world ...