The Doomsday Clock now stands at 89 seconds to midnight, the closest to catastrophe in its nearly eight-decade history. Here's a look at how — and why — it's moved.

the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists created the Doomsday Clock two years later as a metaphor for how close humanity is to destroying itself. In 1947, the Doomsday Clock was set at 7 minutes to ...

The Doomsday clock was set at 89 seconds to midnight on ... of Chicago-based nonprofit the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists as a metaphor that shows how close the planet is to reaching "human ...

Humanity has grown closer to global disaster in the past year, with the Doomsday Clock moving to 89 seconds to midnight.

For the last two years, it has been at 90 seconds – itself already closer than ever before. The Doomsday Clock was begun in 1947, as a metaphor for the danger that the world was facing. Then, it was ...

The clock is meant as a metaphor for how close humanity is to ... It was called the Doomsday Clock. "It gave the sense that if we did nothing, it would tick on toward midnight and we could ...

The Doomsday Clock is set every year by experts on the ... “It’s an imperfect metaphor,” Michael E. Mann, Presidential Distinguished Professor in the earth and environmental science ...

The Doomsday clock was set at 89 seconds to midnight on ... of Chicago-based nonprofit the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists as a metaphor that shows how close the planet is to reaching "human ...

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.

“The Doomsday Clock is a design that warns the public about how close we are to destroying our world with dangerous technologies of our own making,” the website says. “It is a ...