If humanity’s existence was a 24-hour clock where midnight represented the apocalypse, then the world is 89 seconds to midnight, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists announced during a press ...

The hands of the clock were moved closer to the "midnight" hour – which means ultimate destruction – this week. The clock now stands at 89 seconds to midnight, the closest it's ever been.

Over the past seven decades, the clock has been adjusted forward and backward multiple times. The farthest the minute hand has been pushed back from the cataclysmic midnight hour was 17 minutes in ...

Moving the clock back with bold, concrete actions is still possible. In fact, the hand moved the farthest away from midnight — a whopping 17 minutes before the hour — in 1991, when then ...