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Humans have been leaving their mark upon Earth for almost as long as we’ve existed. But over the last 70 years — little more than moments in the 300,000-year history of Homo sapiens — the amount of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. We all wonder about our legacy—what will remain of us when we’re gone? Two paleontologists set out to answer that question for the ...

How might you make your mark on the world forever? Write a play more timeless than Shakespeare, or compose music to out-do Mozart, or score the winning goal in the next World Cup final, perhaps? There ...

Fast fashion and drinks cans among technological-age matter most likely to endure as fossils, say scientists As an eternal testament of humanity, plastic bags, cheap clothes and chicken bones are not ...

We all wonder about our legacy—what will remain of us when we’re gone? Two paleontologists set out to answer that question for the whole of humankind in a new book that explores how the material ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The long-term legacy of civilization has tickled the imagination of science fiction writers from Isaac Asimov to the minds behind ...