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, ...

WASHINGTON — Scientists say the Doomsday Clock is now closer to “zero hour” than ever before. This week, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists set the clock at 85 seconds to midnight, a new record for ...

The world slipped further toward the abyss over the past year, with the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists on Tuesday moving the hands of the famed Doomsday Clock four seconds closer to midnight, at 85 ...

Humanity continues to move closer to catastrophe, scientists said Tuesday, Jan. 27. The human race is at its closest point yet to destroying itself, according to the reset of the ominous but symbolic ...