From engineered pandemics to city-toppling cyber attacks to nuclear annihilation, life on Earth could radically change, and soon. Scientists forecasted the fate of the planet at a press conference during the 2021 APS April Meeting. “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… – SciTech Daily