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The US military aims to maintain its dominance by building autonomous attack drones that collaborate with humans and overwhelm defenses in swarms.

Will MacAskill, author of the forthcoming book What We Owe the Future, on surviving the era of catastrophic risk.

These labs have a long history of working on public and agricultural health concerns, and no evidence shows they have moved outside of that.

Genetic modification using new technologies like CRISPR has been called a “weapon of mass destruction and proliferation."

The world health organization says zika remains a significant enduring public health challenge requiring intense action. one only needs to look back to 1918 when the spanish flu pandemic killed an estimated 50 million people around the globe. in many ways, were even more vulnerable today. densely packed cities, wars, natural disasters and international air travel mean a deadly virus propagated in a small village in africa can be transmitted almost anywhere in the world, including the united stat...