Unconventional takes on pandemics and nuclear defense could protect humanity from catastrophic failure, https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/04/210416194919.htm April 16, 2021, Source: American Physical Society Summary: From engineered pandemics to city-toppling cyber attacks to nuclear annihilation, life on Earth could radically change, and soon. From engineered pandemics to city-toppling cyber attacks to nuclear annihilation, life on Earth could radically change, and soon. “Our Earth is 45 million centuries old. But this century is the first when one species — ours — can determine the biosphere’s fate,” said Martin Rees, the United Kingdom’s Astronomer Royal and a founder of the Centre for the Study of Existential Risks at Cambridge University.*