Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer may be leading the Oscar race, but the celebrated physicist is in the headlines for a much bleaker reason this week, as the organisation J. Robert Oppenheimer ...

Humanity is closer than ever to catastrophe, according to the atomic scientists behind the Doomsday Clock. The ominous metaphor ticked one second closer to midnight this week. The clock now stands ...

Scientists have changed the time on what's known as the Doomsday Clock, which uses various predictors to gauge how close humanity might be to extinction. The Science and Security Board (SASB) of the ...

Humanity is officially one second closer to world annihilation, scientists say. The Doomsday Clock has been revealed – and it ...

Is it too early on a Tuesday to have an existential crisis? The Doomsday Clock doesn’t believe so. On Tuesday morning, the Doomsday Clock was set at 89 seconds to midnight, which is the closest it has ...

(CNN) — 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 Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists cited the threat of nuclear escalation in Ukraine, climate change and disruptive technologies as reasons to keep the clock at 90 seconds to midnight. When you ...

The hands of the worldwide Doomsday Clock in Hyde Park remained at 90 seconds to midnight in its annual reset, after global threats cast “menacing shadows” on the clock deliberations and “ominous ...