The Doomsday Clock has remained at 100 seconds, staying the closest to midnight it has ever been for the second year running.
Maintaining last year's grim record means the clock's keepers perceived threat of global apocalypse has not cooled off in the past 12 months - citing nuclear holocaust and climate change as the real threats to humanity, not Covid.
Rachel Bronson, president and chief executive of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, cited the ongoing coronavirus pandemic as one of the reasons for this year's count, saying: "We recognise that humanity continues to suffer as the Covid-19 pandemic spreads around the world.
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