The clock is a symbolic way to show the public how close scientists believe the world is to a human-made apocalypse.

Familiar risks to human existence such as nuclear weapons and climate change were cited by the scientists, along with new technologies like artificial intelligence, which they argued is being used to ...

On Jan. 27, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists announced that the human race is at its closest point in history of annihilation.

A seabed curtain to protect Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica would be difficult and expensive, but doing nothing to slow the glacier's collapse could be even worse.