Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The 2026 Doomsday Clock is ticking closer to midnight, signaling humanity edging to the "closest it has ever been to catastrophe" ...

A Chicago-based group of scientists have once again warned the world is closer than ever to human-made destruction by moving the symbolic “Doomsday Clock” up to 85 seconds to midnight.

(CNN) — 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 ...