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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The human race is mere seconds from catastrophe, according to the ominously named “Doomsday Clock,” as it ticks closer to midnight ...

Wars, climate change, disruptive technologies and the rise of autocracy over the past year prompted scientists to set the clock at 85 seconds to midnight. Wars, climate change, disruptive technologies ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Doomsday Clock – which measures how close humanity is to destroying itself – got its annual reset on Jan. 27, 2026. The ...

Earth is closer than it's ever been to destruction as Russia, China, the U.S. and other countries become "increasingly aggressive, adversarial, and nationalistic," a science-oriented advocacy group ...

Earlier on Jan. 26, the hands of the Doomsday Clock were set closer to midnight than they've ever been in its history. Citing a worldwide "failure of leadership," the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists ...

For many years, cesium atomic clocks have been reliably keeping time around the world. But the future belongs to even more accurate clocks: optical atomic clocks. In a few years' time, they could ...

Atomic scientists have moved the hands of the “Doomsday Clock” to 85 seconds to midnight. This shift, announced Tuesday by the Bulletin’s Science and Security Board, moves the countdown to global ...

BANDUNG, Indonesia (AP) — Nineteen members of Indonesia’s elite marine force are among 42 people missing after being swept away or buried by a deadly weekend landslide that tore through a mountainside ...