The clock is currently set at 90 seconds to midnight—a symbolic threshold representing humanity's annihilation. But what is it, and is it real? Although the Doomsday Clock doesn't physically ...

The Doomsday Clock doesn’t believe so. On Tuesday morning, the Doomsday Clock was set at 89 seconds to midnight, which is the closest it has ever been to midnight in the 78 years since it ...

The Doomsday Clock was designed by the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists in 1947 to help us understand that the hands of the clock indicate the time in seconds or minutes until midnight, or the time ...

Credit: Win McNamee/Getty Images) The "Doomsday Clock" is now at 2 minutes to midnight. Are you scared? Because according to the experts at the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, you should be.