(NEXSTAR) – The Doomsday Clock, a concept designed by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists to represent humanity’s proximity to a global catastrophe, moved slightly closer to “midnight” on Tuesday.

Humanity is closer than ever to catastrophe, according to the atomic scientists behind the Doomsday Clock. The ominous ...

Seventy-eight years ago, scientists created a unique sort of timepiece — named the Doomsday Clock — as a symbolic attempt to gauge how close humanity is to destroying the world. On Tuesday ...

The Doomsday Clock has moved one second closer to midnight, the metaphorical point at which humanity is experiencing a global catastrophe. Here's a closer look at what this means, how this ...

The Doomsday Clock has been moved closer to midnight than ever before - symbolising that we are edging towards a global catastrophe. The clock's new time of 89 seconds to midnight was announced on ...

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 scientists predicting the probability of a worldwide catastrophe have announced the Doomsday Clock has moved from 90 seconds-to-midnight to 89 seconds. The change means the clock is the ...