Artificial Intelligence has been deemed such a threat by "AI Doomers" that some of them have completely given up on a future for humanity. Machine Intelligence Research Institute researcher Nate ...

Eighty years have passed since the end of a war that brought Japan to the brink of destruction and claimed countless lives in ...

The Doomsday Clock, a symbol of global danger, remains the closest it has ever been to midnight. Scientists warn climate change and nuclear threats keep humanity on high alert.

On this week’s “More To The Story,” Daniel Holz from the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists discusses why the hands of the Doomsday Clock are the closest they’ve ever been to midnight.

With the dropping of two atom bombs, 80 years ago this month, humanity reached a tipping point in Hiroshima and Nagaski.

As the world marks the 80th anniversary of the first use of a nuclear weapon, on the Japanese city of Hiroshima near the end of World War II, the planet is closer to seeing them used again than it has ...

Eighty years after the first atomic bombs fell on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, experts and survivors warn that the risk of a new ...

Reflecting on the 80th anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, Thomas Merton's 'Original Child Bomb' and the Doomsday ...

This year’s Doomsday Clock Statement landed like a damp squib in a Trump-swamped corporate news cycle on January 28th. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists only moved the hands of the Clock ...

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.

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 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.