The Doomsday Clock has been moved closer than ever to midnight by scientists, a change that is said to signify that we are edging closer to the end of the world. The clock, which is a metaphor for the ...

The hands of the "Doomsday Clock" have officially been reset to 85 seconds to midnight, the closest to catastrophe humanity has ever been before. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists' Science and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Earth is closer than it's ever been to destruction as Russia, China, the U.S. and other countries become "increasingly aggressive, ...

The Doomsday Clock was created in 1947, during the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union. It is, in essence, a symbolic representation of how close humanity is to the destruction of ...

The midnight doomsday clock headlines can sound like a final countdown, but the Doomsday Clock is a warning symbol, not a prediction. It is reset each year by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists to ...

The world is closer to catastrophe than it has ever been, at least according to the scientists who maintain the Doomsday Clock. This year, the symbolic clock was set to 85 seconds to midnight, marking ...