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Is apocalypse near? How the Doomsday Clock tracks nuclear, climate threats

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists will set the symbolic Doomsday Clock for the first time since the Ukraine war revived fears of nuclear disaster.

Humanity is doing its best impression of a black hole

Daniel Holz studies the universe’s ultimate catastrophes. And he knows a thing or two about existential threats on Earth, since he helps set the Doomsday Clock.
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Global boom, pandemic, crash: is history just repeating itself?

If Peter Turchin is right, we face the end of a 300-year cycle, as did previous far-flung empires.
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