Is it too early on a Tuesday to have an existential crisis? The Doomsday Clock doesn’t believe so. On Tuesday morning, the Doomsday Clock was set at 89 seconds to midnight, which is the closest ...

Podcasters Josh and Chuck recently discussed how humans are just "89 seconds" away from global catastrophe as per the metaphorical timer called the Doomsday Clock. The duo talked about the same in ...

The Doomsday Clock is a metaphor that represents how close humanity is to self-destruction, due to nuclear weapons and climate change. The clock hands are set by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, ...

If the federal government wants to keep Medicare and Social Security intact for the next 75 years, it will need an extra $78.2 trillion in cash that is not available ...

My grandfather J. Robert Oppenheimer shared the first principle of nuclear weapons: The only safety from them is in cooperation. Trump agrees.

Howard relents and resolves to help Bobby. This scene is rendered unforgettable by a depiction of the Doomsday Clock with its minute hand pointing at 15 seconds to midnight. In real life ...

34,850 people played the daily Crossword recently. Can you solve it faster than others?34,850 people played the daily Crossword recently. Can you solve it faster than others?

Once the grid goes down, an old programming language called Forth—and a new operating system called Collapse OS—may be our only salvation.

The economic doomsday clock has been reset. Bear growls Over the past year, Wall Street pessimists' reasons for an approaching recession have shifted. First, it was the spike in food and energy ...

The Doomsday Clock was designed by the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists in 1947 to help us understand that the hands of the clock indicate the time in seconds or minutes until midnight, or the time ...

Extinction is the greatest disaster that humanity must avoid. While that may seem a simple enough task, it is also a ...