Scientists and global leaders revealed on Tuesday that the "Doomsday Clock" has been reset to the closest humanity has ever come to self-annihilation.
The Doomsday Clock is a metaphor for how close the world is to being inhabitable for humanity. Scientists just set the new time for 2025.
On January 28, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists updated the Doomsday Clock from 90 to 89 seconds until "midnight," as world-ending threats continue escalating at
What is the Doomsday Clock? It's 2025 and scientists have reset the clock closer to midnight and global catastrophe. Here's what it all means.
Today, the Doomsday Clock was set to 89 seconds to midnight, signaling that experts fear we are dangerously close to a global catastrophe.
Atomic scientists on Tuesday moved their "Doomsday Clock" closer to midnight than ever before, citing Russian nuclear threats amid its invasion of Ukraine, tensions in other world hot spots, military applications of artificial intelligence and climate change as factors underlying the risks of global catastrophe.
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has moved its Doomsday Clock forward for 2025, announcing that it is now set to 89 seconds to midnight –— the closest it’s ever been to catastrophe.
The Chicago-based Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, which runs the clock, decided to move the clock one second closer to midnight because of climate change, nuclear threats and biological hazards.
For the first time in three years, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moved the Doomsday Clock forward by one second.
The Doomsday Clock now stands at 89 seconds to midnight reflecting unprecedented global risks including nuclear proliferation and climate change.
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 symbol,
The Doomsday Clock is closer to midnight than ever before. What does it mean? How is this determined? Can the clock be wound back?