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In today’s Discovery: Scientists are inching closer to making invisibility a reality, why the competitive sport of picking up trash is becoming popular, and what makes black ice so dangerous. Plus, a red-hot dino debate involving a T. rex was just solved—learn all about it in the first episode of our new Dead World series.

But first: Here’s what the archaeologists of the future will discover about us.

Technofossils, anything that is man-made, including new materials, will persist in the fossil record for centuries. Here, a mock fossil shows the imprints that may be left behind from USB cables.

Sarah Gabbott

Earth is covered with man-made technofossils—like cellphones, leather shoes, and plastic-laced tea bags—that will last for centuries and maybe even longer. But in our unprecedented era of human-made stuff, scientists are asking: Where will it all go?

WHAT WILL HAPPEN
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National Geographic editor Nicholas St. Fleur explains the latest research on the Nanotyrannus.

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A dino debate about a T. rex goes extinct

How scientists are making the power of invisibility a reality

Inside spogomi, the growing competitive sport of picking up trash

What is black ice? The science behind the winter threat hidden in plain sight

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