As if our newsfeeds weren’t stressful enough, scientists have once again tinkered with the hands of this ominous clock for 2025, inching us closer to the metaphorical stroke of midnight.

The time of the clock is currently 89 seconds to midnight. The Doomsday Clock is a symbol that represents how close we are to destroying the world with dangerous technologies of our own making. It ...

Everyone could set their clock to coincide with the ball drop ... However, in another American difference, the stroke of midnight is when the ball reaches the bottom, not the instant it starts ...

The furthest from midnight the Doomsday Clock has ever been was 17 minutes to midnight in 1991, after the Cold War ended and a new arms treaty between the U.S. and the Soviet Union greatly reduced ...

develop them over the course of three or four years and have a championship window. The clock is striking at midnight, and Cinderella is turning back into a pumpkin.

That symbolic clock was created 76 years ago by atomic scientists, including Albert Einstein. Year after year, experts have measured humanity’s proximity to midnight – in other words, to ...