Seventy-eight years ago, scientists created a unique sort of timepiece — named the Doomsday Clock — as a symbolic attempt to gauge how close humanity is to destroying the world. On Tuesday, the clock ...

We're still as close as ever to global catastrophe, according to the annual update of the Doomsday Clock, announced Tuesday morning. The time on the symbolic clock is the same as last year, when the ...

WASHINGTON (TND) — The "Doomsday Clock," the metaphorical measure by theBulletin of the Atomic Scientists of how close human kind is close to self-annihilation, remained set at 90 seconds to midnight.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The experts who maintain the ominous Doomsday Clock said Tuesday that humanity is still as close as ever to global catastrophe, ...

This is the third time that the clock has been moved closer to midnight in the past five years. “Every second counts, and we ...

The Doomsday clock was set at 89 seconds to midnight on Tuesday morning, putting it the closest the world has ever been to what scientists deem "global catastrophe." The decades-old international ...

CHICAGO -- At the dawn of the nuclear age, scientists created the Doomsday Clock as a symbolic representation of how close humanity is to destroying the world. On Tuesday, nearly eight decades later, ...

The experts who maintain the ominous Doomsday Clock said Tuesday that humanity is still as close as ever to global catastrophe, which could involve nuclear war, climate change, or maybe even ...