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High Street faces Doomsday: Disaster looms for shops, pubs and restaurants

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Thousands of shops, pubs and restaurants face going bust after the Prime Minister’s coronavirus crackdown on socialising last night. Boris Johnson urged the public to ‘avoid pubs, clubs, theatres and other such social venues’, saying ‘now is the time for everyone to stop non-essential contact with others’. The guidelines mean the income of thousands of … Read more

Seeds from Prince Charles’ residence are among the new additions to the Arctic ‘doomsday vault’

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Wild meadow seeds from Prince Charles’ Highgrove residence are among the new plant species being added to the Arctic ‘doomsday vault’. The royal gardens’s seeds will be joined by those of onions from Brazil, guar beans from central Asia and hundreds of others in the vault’s collections for safe keeping.  In a statement, Prince Charles … Read more

MIT scientists create doomsday AI that will take over if it detects an asteroid heading toward Earth

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A team of scientists at MIT have developed a computer program that will help humans decide how to best deal with the end of the world, so long as that comes in form of a catastrophic asteroid collision.  Experts say there as many as two or three new asteroids, sometimes called ‘Near Earth Objects,’ discovered … Read more