apocalypse

The iconic graphic of a timepiece originated as a nuclear warning. It updates its time on Thursday amid threats like climate change and pandemics.

Stories of people clawing their way back from despair, bonding together, and having fun in the process are exactly what we all need right now.

The features get a little hotter every year! It's a self-perpetuating cycle that can't ever be reversed.

Together, they teach us one crucial thing: You are not a zombie—yet.

Mark O’Connell never imagined his book, Notes From an Apocalypse, would come out amid global catastrophe. But his optimism is more relevant than ever.

Pop culture has been inundated with catastrophe porn for decades. None of it has prepared us for our new reality.

No commitments! No commutes! No cares! Admit it: The coronavirus apocalypse is actually kind of fun for you.

The dating app's new end-of-the-world, choose-your-own-adventure game, called Swipe Night, will generate new matches based on your choices.

Meet the asteroid-impact planners who hope to protect humans from murderous space rocks and the fate of the dinosaurs.

For those on the subreddit r/childfree, the reasons to consider childfreedom extend far beyond baby hatred, questions of bodily autonomy, or suboptimal finances.

Opinion: The apocalyptic clock remains fixed at two minutes to midnight—as close as we've ever been to catastrophe. That's not close enough.

Beyond Wellington’s obsessive coffee culture and Queenstown’s unspoiled landscape, New Zealand has established itself as an unlikely bolt-hole for the impending apocalypse.

The growing power of algorithms raises more immediate challenges than the possibility of murderous machines.

What wet socks can tell us about our capacity to survive climate change.

Markets blip, social media screams, investors get spooked, and the cycle continues.

Carlton Cuse didn't want his new show on USA to be just another alien-invasion show. Here's why.

Apocalypse, wow.

So, X-Men: Days of Future Past offered up more mutants than you could have ever imagined, and yet you're still hungry for more? But where to turn after the latest (and arguably greatest) X-Men movie? Why, to the comic book source material, of course.

The End Is Nigh -- the first installment of Apocalypse Triptych -- is crammed with many different, and often heartbreaking, takes on the lead-up to the end of the world.

How will the world end? Will it be an asteroid, extreme climate conditions, a viral pandemic? No one really knows, which is why apocalypse scenarios are such rich territory for imaginative artists like Lori Nix. The Brooklyn-based photographer creates and then documents detailed miniature dioramas of the end times.

World War Z’s latest trailer poses the most important question in a zombie apocalypse: “Daddy, what’s martial law?” (Also, to paraphrase, “How do we get rid of these things?!”)

The warnings range from sarcastic to nervous to dead serious, but they all describe the same scenario: Robots become sentient, join forces and turn on us en masse. But we've ignored another possibility: Animals learn to control robots and decide it's their turn to rule the planet. The first signs of this coming threat are already starting to appear in laboratories around the world, where robots are being driven by birds, trained by moths and controlled by the minds of monkeys.

An old college friend posted on Facebook last night that if the world does end today, at least it would have some decent tunes. The apocalypse is a popular topic in all forms of entertainment and music hasn't escaped from that, so here's ten songs to form a soundtrack to the end of the world.

With the Mayan predicted apocalypse upon us, our thoughts drift to the possible end of the world. Here's 10 movies about the end, that the ancient Mayans might have missed.