On Jan. 26, 2017, the hands of the Doomsday clock were moved to two and half minutes to midnight. Lawrence Krauss, Thomas Pickering, and David Titley, unveiled it at a press conference in ...

Earlier this year, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announced that it was moving the hands of the Doomsday Clock to 89 seconds before midnight, a symbolic hour signifying global catastrophe. The ...

Jan. 14, 2010 -- Is humanity approaching an apocalypse? Today, a group of international scientists will move the hands of the symbolic "Doomsday Clock" for the first time in two years.

The Doomsday Clock, a composite warning signal formulated by many noted scientists, is now showing we are 89 seconds from midnight, the time representing how close we are as a species to extinction.