The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has moved its Doomsday Clock forward for 2025, announcing that it is now set to 89 seconds to midnight –— the closest it’s ever been to catastrophe.

The ominous metaphor ticked one second closer to midnight this week. The clock now stands just 89 seconds away — its first move in two years and the closest the clock come to midnight in its ...

The Doomsday Clock is a symbolic timepiece showing how close we are to ‘destroying our world with dangerous technologies of our own making’. The Doomsday Clock of the Bulletin of the Atomic ...

The “doomsday clock,” a scientist-curated measure of how close human civilization may be to total collapse, ticked one second closer to “midnight” with just 89 seconds to go, the Bulletin ...

"Consequently, we now move the Doomsday Clock from 90 seconds to 89 seconds to midnight − the closest it has ever been to catastrophe. Our fervent hope is that leaders will recognize the world ...

Is it the end of the world as we know it? The Doomsday Clock now indicates that we’re metaphorically one second closer to it than we were last year — the closest humanity has ever been to ...

What Happened: The so-called Doomsday Clock — a symbol of “humanity’s proximity to catastrophe” — is now set at a hand-wringing 89 seconds to midnight (aka “the point of no return”).

The clock’s hands now indicate that the earth is just 89 seconds from midnight — the closest it’s ever been to “doomsday.” The clock was last reset in January 2023, when moved to 90 ...