Many modern alarm clocks have a nine-minute snooze feature, including iPhone alarms, which have a preset nine-minute snooze time with no option to customize it. This has led many seemingly ...

The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists has once again moved their iconic ... Safe to say they'd agree with less than a minute and a half on the Doomsday Clock with that shared opinion.

She set the original hands at seven minutes to midnight because "it looked good to my eye." The clock graced the cover of the 1947 Bulletin and has remained its iconic image ever since — even as ...

This brought the clock back by seven seconds. The furthest the clock has been from midnight was 17 minutes. The clock was ...

The setting of the clock has jumped forward and back over the past 78 years, depending on world events. The furthest from midnight it has ever been was in 1991, when it was set at 17 minutes to ...

Over the past seven decades, the clock has been adjusted forward and backward multiple times. The farthest the minute hand has been pushed back from the cataclysmic midnight hour was 17 minutes in ...

There have been more reassuring years, though. In 1995 the clock was at 14 minutes to midnight, the safest reading in its history. And there were "positive strides" in some years, such as the ...

The Doomsday Clock is a symbol that represents how close we are to destroying the world with dangerous technologies of our own making. It warns how many metaphorical “minutes to midnight” humanity has ...

It has been set three minutes fast ever since. Brian Duncan, chief engineer of the Balmoral Hotel, said the tradition would endure. At 02:00 the clock will be stopped for an hour, and set running ...