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Earlier on Jan. 26, the hands of the Doomsday Clock were set closer to midnight than they've ever been in its history. Citing a worldwide "failure of leadership," the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists ...

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 ...

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, the clock ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists members, from left, Jon B. Wolfsthal, Asha M. George and Steve Fetter reveal the Doomsday ...

The 2026 Doomsday Clock is ticking closer to midnight, signaling humanity edging to the "closest it has ever been to catastrophe" according to the Atomic Scientists, and the human race destroying ...

Atomic scientists have moved the hands of the “Doomsday Clock” to 85 seconds to midnight. This shift, announced Tuesday by the Bulletin’s Science and Security Board, moves the countdown to global ...

Jan. 28 (UPI) --The symbolic Doomsday Clock managed by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, has been moved forward by 4 seconds this year, making it now 85 seconds to midnight. On Tuesday, the group ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Now that 2026 is officially underway, we’re only a few short weeks away from gaining more of that precious daylight. Although it ...

Earth is closer than it's ever been to destruction as Russia, China, the U.S. and other countries become "increasingly aggressive, adversarial, and nationalistic," a science-oriented advocacy group ...

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announced on Jan. 27 that the hands of the Doomsday Clock moved forward four seconds and now sits at 85 seconds to midnight—the closest the symbolic clock has ...

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 ...