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 ...

It’s not likely anyone will hear Bruce Dickinson singing “90 seconds to midnight” during an Iron Maiden show, but it would be more accurate than the band’s similarly titled 1984 single. Inspired by a ...

A panel of scientists and scholars said Thursday they believe the world is as close as it has ever been to a so-called doomsday scenario. The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, which has been tracking the ...

The Doomsday Clock, which has been used to examine the world’s vulnerability to global catastrophe for nearly a century, has moved one second closer to midnight. On Jan. 28, the Bulletin of the Atomic ...

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 ...

The Doomsday Clock is now the closest it has ever been to midnight, signalling that humanity is closer than ever to the precipice of catastrophe. For 78 years now, scientists from around the world ...

Humanity might be edging closer to the apocalypse according to the Doomsday Clock. A panel of scholars from the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists has moved the symbolic countdown to the end of the world ...

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 ...

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists set the clock at 90 seconds to midnight on Tuesday, citing the war in Ukraine as well as climate change, online disinformation and other threats. By Jesus Jiménez ...

The hands of the symbolic Doomsday Clock are set at 89 seconds to midnight - closer to global catastrophe than ever before.