Tin cans and chicken bones: will ‘technofossils’ be humanity’s lasting legacy? – podcast | Science

When future sales scientists search for evidence to understand how we lived, what can they find? Alaman has suggested exploring this question that “Technofossils” will always be a footprint on Earth. To know exactly what it is and what they can reveal about our lives, Madeleine Vinley hears from the editor of the guardian, Damian Carrington, and Sarah Gabbot, a professor of ponds at Leicester University and one of the scientists behind the new book: How our final codes will be for us.