The "Doomsday Clock" is a metaphor for how close humanity is to self-annihilation.

USA TODAY asked Alexandra Bell, the president and CEO of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, a few questions about the ...

At the 2026 Doomsday Clock announcement, the Bulletin’s Science and Security Board moved the Doomsday Clock forward from 89 seconds to 85 seconds to midnight, citing a failure in global leadership.

On a chilly winter day in 1881, a new bell rang out on the west end of the village of Spartanburg, signaling the end of one era and the beginning of another. Installed in concert with a clock atop the ...

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This was the third time in the past four years that the scientists moved the clock closer to midnight.