In 2023, the clock moved to 90 seconds to midnight after Russian President Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine and broke the ...
Eighty years after the founding of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, and 55 years after the first Earth Day, humanity faces a growing profusion of existential threats. Most people—including ...
A small group of scientists and policy experts meet behind closed doors in Chicago to decide how close humanity is to ...
The idea that the Maya calendar “reset” in 2012 and took the world with it was always a projection of modern anxiety, not an ...
In his preface to “A Christmas Carol,” Charles Dickens expresses the hope that his “little book” would “not put my readers out of humor with themselves.” But he obviously wanted to induce ...
A recent study paints a concerning picture of the potential collapse of the Thwaites Glacier, otherwise known as the Doomsday ...
An analysis of the expansion of cracks in the Thwaites Glacier over the past 20 years suggests that a total collapse could be ...
We’re once again approaching the annual resetting of the Doomsday Clock. Last January, the Science and Security Board of the ...