Actually, the hour-to-minute ratio is just 12:1 (or 24:1). Every twelve hours the hour hand makes one full rotation, while the minute hand makes twelve.

The clock's minute hand was moved forward after the August 2019 collapse of the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty between the U.S. and Russia.

The world is two minutes closer to "doomsday" 00:23 The iconic Doomsday Clock, considered a metaphor for the dangers faced by the world, was pushed ahead by two minutes over concerns about ...

On January 24, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moved the minute hand of the Doomsday Clock from 100 seconds to midnight to 90 seconds to midnight, reflecting their experts’ opinion about ...

The Bulletin has reset the minute hand on the Doomsday Clock 26 times since its debut in 1947, most recently in 2025 when we moved it from 90 seconds to midnight to 89 seconds to midnight. Every time ...

In a sign of pessimism about humanity's future, scientists today set the hands of the infamous "Doomsday Clock" forward one minute from two years ago. "It is now five minutes to midnight ...

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 atomic scientists' Doomsday Clock is now 75—and threats to civilization still abound. A Cold War icon, the clock conveys scientists’ views on humankind’s risk of destroying itself.

A week after the team published their paper, another research group led by Shimon Kolkowitz at Berkeley published a paper attempting to realize a similar multi-hand clock in Physical Review X.