The "Doomsday Clock" which represents how near humanity is to catastrophe moved closer than ever to midnight on Tuesday as concerns grow over nuclear weapons, climate change and disinformation. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jon Wolfsthal, director of global risk at the Federation of American Scientists (FAS), Asha George, executive director of the ...

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

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Scientists who track global threats to humanity have pushed the symbolic Doomsday Clock closer to catastrophe than at any point since it was created. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announced on ...

WASHINGTON — Atomic scientists set their "Doomsday Clock" on Tuesday closer than ever to midnight, citing aggressive behavior by nuclear powers Russia, China and the United States, fraying nuclear ...