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NASA Captures Spooky Photo of the Moon’s Shadow on Earth During an Eclipse
Earthlings were privy to an exciting astronomical event last month: an annular solar eclipse, which cast a lunar shadow across the Arctic Circle. Today NASA shared an image of that shadow, taken by the Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) aboard NOAA’s Deep Space Climate Observatory nearly a million miles from Earth.
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How an Artificial Superintelligence Might Actually Destroy Humanity
I’m confident that machine intelligence will be our final undoing. Its potential to wipe out humanity is something I’ve been thinking and writing about for the better part of 20 years. I take a lot of flak for this, but the prospect of human civilisation getting extinguished by its own tools is not to be…
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40,000 Kids in the U.S. Have Lost a Parent to Covid-19, Study Finds
A new study provides a heartbreaking reminder of the pain caused by the covid-19 pandemic. It estimates that nearly 40,000 children in the U.S. have lost at least one parent to the viral illness as of February this year. The study also found that more than 100,000 children would have lost a parent if the…
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What Scientists Wish They Knew a Year Ago About the Covid-19 Pandemic
On January 20, 2020, the first known case of covid-19 in the U.S. was reported — a man in his 30s who had travelled back to Washington State from Wuhan, China, where the first cases of the novel viral disease had been discovered in December 2019. Nearly everyone failed to predict the full scale of…