Scientists have ominously claimed that humanity is inching closer to an apocalypse. This claim follows the reset of the Doomsday Clock, the symbolic clock assessing how close humankind is to a self-inflicted catastrophe.
On Tuesday, 28 January, experts from the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists warned that humanity is moving closer to a catastrophe in an update of the Doomsday Clock. Currently, the clock stands at 85 seconds to midnight, after a four-second advance from the previous year. The clock is also the closest to midnight since it was first introduced in 1947. The time of the Doomsday Clock is determined every year by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists' Science and Security Board in consultation with its Board of Sponsors, among them eight Nobel Laureates. The major factors in 2026 included the growing threat of nuclear weapons, AI, biological security concerns, and the climate crisis.
