Rising threats from climate change and nuclear arsenals prompted the scientists who maintain the Doomsday Clock, a symbolic countdown to global catastrophe, to move it two minutes closer to midnight ...

The keepers of the Doomsday Clock on Thursday moved the symbolic countdown to global disaster to the closest point to midnight in its 73-year history, citing “existential danger” from nuclear war and ...

Humanity might be edging closer to the apocalypse according to the Doomsday Clock. A panel of scholars from the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists has moved the symbolic countdown to the end of the world ...

Chicago is preparing to take center stage this New Year’s Eve as the city’s midnight countdown will be broadcast live on ABC’s Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve for the first time in the show’s ...