Humanity has grown closer to global disaster in the past year, with the Doomsday Clock moving to 89 seconds to midnight.

Nuclear, disease and AI fears factor into 2025 Doomsday Clock reset The nuclear threat is especially concerning this year, said Manpreet Sethi, a member of the board and distinguished fellow at the Centre for Air Power Studies in New Delhi.

The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists announced Tuesday that the "Doomsday Clock" is now set to 89 seconds to midnight.

Scientists and global leaders revealed on Tuesday that the "Doomsday Clock" has been reset to the closest humanity has ever come to self-annihilation.

The Doomsday Clock is a metaphor for how close the world is to being inhabitable for humanity. Scientists just set the new time for 2025.

A science-oriented advocacy group says the Earth is moving closer to destruction. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists said Tuesday that they've moved their “Doomsday Clock” to 89 seconds to midnight,

When making the determination, they ask two questions — is humanity safer or at greater risk than last year, and is humanity safer or at greater risk than when the clock was created.

The world is closer than ever before to total apocalypse, the scientists behind the Doomsday Clock have warned. The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists – the group that sets the time of the clock, which is intended to show the chance of annihilation from a range of threats – said that it was moving the clock forwards once more.

Scientists set so-called Doomsday Clock closer to midnight, highlighting what they perceive to be the increased probability of global disaster

Atomic scientists on Tuesday moved their "Doomsday Clock" closer to midnight than ever before, citing Russian nuclear threats amid its invasion of Ukraine, tensions in other world hot spots, military applications of artificial intelligence and climate change as factors underlying the risks of global catastrophe.