Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

At the dawn of the nuclear age, scientists created the Doomsday Clock as a symbolic representation of how close humanity is to destroying the world. On Tuesday, nearly eight decades later, the clock ...

Scientists who track global threats to humanity have pushed the symbolic Doomsday Clock closer to catastrophe than at any point since it was created. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announced on ...

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 ...