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.

In a nutshell When the Doomsday Clock moves closer to midnight, researchers found significant increases in suicide rates, Alzheimer’s disease mortality, and substance-related deaths across a 70 ...

The furthest from midnight the Doomsday Clock has ever been was 17 minutes to midnight in 1991, after the Cold War ended and a new arms treaty between the U.S. and the Soviet Union greatly reduced ...

It's hard not to be a "Negative Nelly" when the Doomsday Clock draws ever nearer to indicating an apocalypse. The new study shows that existential stress may play a role in mental and physical health.

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 ...

Apocalypse now? Mortality and mental health correlates of the Doomsday Clock. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 2025; 81 (2): 126 DOI: 10.1080/00963402.2024.2439762 ...

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.