The Doomsday Clock depicts how close humanity is to armageddon – but where did it come from, how do you read its time ... may only have a few metaphorical minutes left until midnight.

The Doomsday Clock now stands at 89 seconds to midnight, the closest to catastrophe in its nearly eight-decade history.

The Chuckle Brothers explain how to read the time on an analogue clock to the nearest 5 minutes. They also show how to calculate time intervals and find start or end times for a given time interval.

In 1947, the Doomsday Clock was set at 7 minutes to midnight. The clock functions as a call-to-action to find ways to resolve “the world’s most urgent, man-made existential threats” and move ...

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists shifted the hands of the symbolic clock to 89 seconds to midnight, citing the threat of ...