Discarded today, fossilized tomorrow: The future legacy of fast fashion and plastics
Plastic bottles, T-shirts, and fast fashion items may become future fossils, as many are only partially recycled, leaving ...
You Can Make Amber Fossils in 24 Hours, Instead of Millions of Years
Paleontologists hope that an amber-like material, made with living tree resin, will shed light on the prehistoric ...
Wind turbine parts may be giant technofossils that puzzle future scientists
This week, uncover the fossils of the future, see which ancient creature had gigantic claws, investigate large molecules on ...
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Scientists create lab-grown amber-like resin to study fossil preservation
Previous research has described fossil resin formations as products of volatile compound loss and polymerization of resin constituents, yet laboratory methods have lacked the ability to replicate ...
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Wind turbine remains may be among ‘most surprising’ fossils for far future generations, paleontologists say
“The fossils won’t be of the towers, by and large – those are made of metal, which can be recycled. The enormous wind turbine blades, though, are made of materials like fibreglass and epoxy resin and ...
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Wind turbine remains may be among 'most surprising' fossils for far future generations, paleontologists say
"The fossils won't be of the towers, by and large—those are made of metal, which can be recycled. The enormous wind turbine blades, though, are made of materials like fiberglass and epoxy resin ...