“This is a once-in-a-curator’s career acquisition,” Kirchhoff said of a rare 16th-century automaton clock that she tracked down. “I had been on the hunt for an automaton even before I came ...

Humanity is closer to destroying itself, according to atomic scientists who revealed on Tuesday that the famous “Doomsday Clock” was set to 89 seconds to midnight — the closest it has ever been.

Seventy-eight years ago, scientists created a unique sort of timepiece — named the Doomsday Clock — as a symbolic attempt to gauge how close humanity is to destroying the world. On Tuesday ...

You can get in touch with Jenna by emailing j.dejong@newsweek.com. Languages: English The Doomsday Clock, a symbolic measure of humanity's proximity to catastrophic destruction, has been set at 89 ...

Officials have updated the doomsday clock and it has been moved closer to midnight - meaning the risk of humanity creating a man-made catastrophe is even greater than ever. The apocalyptic clock ...

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 ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Scientists set so-called Doomsday Clock closer to midnight, highlighting what they perceive to be the ...

The Doomsday Clock has been moved closer to midnight than ever before - symbolising that we are edging towards a global catastrophe. The clock's new time of 89 seconds to midnight was announced on ...