Scientists and global leaders revealed on Tuesday that the "Doomsday Clock" has been reset to the closest humanity has ever come to self-annihilation.

The Doomsday Clock works by judging how near the minute hand is to midnight – simply put, the nearer it is, the closer the Earth is to disaster. The clock is set every year by the Bulletin’s ...

Scientists said the world is closer than ever before to total destruction and 'perilously close to the precipice'.

When the minute hand on a clock moves from one number to the next, it has moved 5 minutes. There are 12 numbers around the clock face, and each interval is 5 minutes… 12 × 5 = 60 minutes in an ...

After the Soviet Union successfully tested its first atomic bomb in 1949, Rabinowitch reset the clock from seven minutes to midnight to three minutes to midnight. When were the hands set closest to ...

The scientists placed the hands of the 1947 clock at seven minutes to midnight. Since then it has moved closer to and farther away from midnight, depending on world events. In the early days of the ...

The clock can only run for approximately an hour, so it’s set up with a second and minute hand instead of the more usual minute and hour hand. However, with the pendulum tuned to the appropriate ...

When the minute hand on a clock moves from one number to the next, it has moved 5 minutes. There are 12 numbers around the clock face, and each interval is 5 minutes… 12 × 5 = 60 minutes in an ...