The Chicago-based nonprofit announced today the decision to advance its Doomsday Clock closer to midnight by 30 seconds. The clock is now two minutes to midnight, the symbolic hour of imminent doom.

Jan. 14, 2010 -- Is humanity approaching an apocalypse? Today, a group of international scientists will move the hands of the symbolic "Doomsday Clock" for the first time in two years.

Earlier this year, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announced that it was moving the hands of the Doomsday Clock to 89 seconds before midnight, a symbolic hour signifying global catastrophe. The ...

The "Doomsday Clock" was founded in 1947 by Albert Einstein and researchers at the University of Chicago to track how close humanity is to destroying itself through the use of atomic weapons.

WASHINGTON -- The Doomsday Clock was reset to 100 seconds to midnight, meaning the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists does not think the world is a safer place in 2020.

The Doomsday Clock is both famous and controversial. However, to date no known studies have explored the potential connection between the Doomsday Clock and health and mortality.

With 17 hours left on the clock and 10 hours until service, a strange sense of calm pervades The Bear. Sydney asks Richie what the hell they should do. “Leave it all on the dance floor,” he says.

If you’re unaware of the Doomsday Clock, its purpose is to represent how close the human race is to extinction. The clock was set to 89 seconds before midnight (a.k.a. Doomsday) in January 2025.

Yes, we do. Since 2007, climate has been included. So the Doomsday Clock was created to alert the world to the dangers and to capture the sense of urgency and the sense of how are things going.