Doomsday Clock stays at three minutes to midnight

Doomsday Clock holds at three minutes to midnight. Tuesday, January 26, 2016 – 01:01. Scientists who maintain the Doomsday Clock, a symbolic countdown to global catastrophe, keep the clock at three minutes to midnight. Deborah Lutterbeck reports.

PALO ALTO, Calif. (AP) — Scientists behind a "Doomsday Clock" that measures the likelihood of a global cataclysm are set to announce Tuesday whether civilization is any closer or farther from disaster. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is expected

Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., left, listens to an attendee's question alongside host Chris Cuomo during a CNN town hall at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, Monday, Jan. 25, 2016. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky). 0. Share.

Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., left, listens to an attendee's question alongside host Chris Cuomo during a CNN town hall at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, Monday, Jan. 25, 2016. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky). 0. Share.

Here are all the things that might make The Bulletin push the clock even further than three minutes to midnight. At that point, the group – which is taken incredibly seriously and includes 16 Nobel laureates – will be proclaiming that humanity is more