Nasa’s Osiris-Rex mission has successfully landed the largest asteroid sample ever collected back on Earth - now for the much-anticipated analysis.
A capsule containing about 250g of rock and dust parachuted down for the final part of its descent to the Utah desert near Salt Lake City after a seven-year, four billion-mile mission.
A quarter of the sample from asteroid Bennu will be given to a group of more than 200 researchers from 38 institutions, including the University of Manchester and London’s Natural History Museum.
Whitehall officials are worried criminals and terrorists could harness artificial intelligence to cause mass destruction as development of the technology continues apace.
The Guardian reports the government’s looking to build a global consensus ahead of an AI safety summit in November to stop rogue use of the technology for causing devastation.
Meanwhile, the United Nations official in charge of examining the growth of AI, says the self-thinking software’s future deployment could be covered by human rights treaties.
UN Tech Envoy Amandeep Gill, UN Tech Envoy says the datasets on which AI is trained, and human biases contained therein, are of particular concern.
A study led by Oxford University investigating the long-term impacts of Covid-19 has found nearly a third of patients admitted to hospital with the virus had abnormalities in multiple organs five months after infection.
According to the findings, damage to the lungs was almost 14 times higher among patients discharged from hospital for Covid than those without coronavirus infection.
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