
Scientists responsible for the infamous “Doomsday Clock,” used to represent how close humanity is to its own destruction, will tell us later if we’re nearing the end of the world as we know it.The clock is run by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists in Chicago, a group of scientists that includes 16 Nobel Laureates, with the number of minutes to midnight telling us how close to disaster we are. Midnight is taken to represent a certain global disaster, working backwards in time as the chances of disaster lessen. The clock is currently set at three minutes to midnight.An event...