Earth is moving closer to destruction, a science-oriented advocacy group said Tuesday as it advanced its famous “Doomsday ...

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, ...

climate change, infectious diseases, and unregulated advancements in artificial intelligence. The Doomsday Clock is a metaphorical representation of how close humanity is to self-destruction.

The concept comes from the work of Edward Norton Lorenz, a mathematician and meteorologist who defined the butterfly effect as: “The phenomenon that a small alteration in the state of a dynamical ...

General Antonio Guterres didn't think his hyping global warming risks brought him enough attention, so now he says, "The ...

The Doomsday Clock was designed by the Bulletin of Atomic ... The reasons for the closeness to doomsday are climate change, genocide, nuclear threats, artificial intelligence, bioterrorism and ...

i.e., climate change, in 2007. Since its creation, it has undergone 25 revisions to reflect shifts in the world. However, an actual doomsday is not predicted by the clock. Instead, it symbolizes ...

This scene is rendered unforgettable by a depiction of the Doomsday Clock with its minute hand ... been due mainly to the nuclear threat, climate change and the abuse of artificial intelligence ...