(NEXSTAR) – The Doomsday Clock, a concept designed by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists to represent humanity’s proximity to a global catastrophe, moved slightly closer to “midnight ...

The "doomsday clock" symbolizing how close humanity is ... that reduce the energy demands of ordinary computing" in the analogue era. But the experts also warned that artificial intelligence ...

The deep freeze in U.S.-Soviet relations in the 1980s moved the clock to three minutes to midnight, until the end of the Cold War and the hope it brought to humanity pushed the clock back to 17 ...

A board of scientists and other experts in nuclear technology and climate science, including 13 Nobel laureates, discuss world events and determine where to place the hands of the clock each year.