The Doomsday Clock is a metaphor that represents how close humanity is to self-destruction, due to nuclear weapons and climate change. The clock hands are set by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, ...

For the first time in three years, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (BAS) moved the Doomsday Clock forward by one second ...

The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists appears from its prophetic confines to let people across the globe know just how close we are to worldwide destruction. Their device is the Doomsday Clock.

The concept comes from the work of Edward Norton Lorenz, a mathematician and meteorologist who defined the butterfly effect as: “The phenomenon that a small alteration in the state of a dynamical ...

The movement of its hands, either forward or backward, is decided by the Science and Security Board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists ... pushed the clock back to 17 minutes before midnight – ...

OPINION: The end of the world is closer today than it was yesterday – but don’t panic. It’s not all doom and gloom; there is ...

The Doomsday Clock was designed by the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists in 1947 to help us understand that the hands of the clock indicate the time in seconds or minutes until midnight, or the time ...

Trump administration violated court order by pausing FEMA grants, judge rules A federal judge ruled on Friday that Republican U.S. President Donald Trump's administration violated a court order by ...

China will impose 84% tariffs on U.S. goods from Thursday, up from the 34% previously announced, its finance ministry said on Wednesday, firing the latest salvo in a global trade war sparked by U ...

Langsdorf is perhaps best known for designing the Doomsday Clock in 1947 ... clock's hands shift annually to reflect global peril — from atomic weapons to climate change — it serves as ...