Radiocarbon dating, also known as carbon-14 dating, is a method to determine the age of organic materials as old as 60,000 years. First developed in the 1940s at the University of Chicago by Willard ...

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Radiometric dating, utilizing the predictable decay rates of radioactive isotopes within rocks and other materials, is the primary method for determining the age of geological samples. Multiple ...

More than 2,800 years ago, residents of Iron-age Jerusalem faced a climate change, marked by years of drought and sudden flash floods. The ruling establishment of Judah, probably led by King Jehoash ...

SACLAY - From unmasking art forgery to uncovering the secrets of the Notre-Dame cathedral, an imposing machine outside Paris can turn back the clock to reveal the truth. It uses a technique called ...

Scientists know that dinosaur fossils are millions of years old by dating radioactive elements in rocks that the fossils were found near or in. Soft tissue can exist in fossils for longer than 4 ...

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Martin Kamen, the scientist who co-discovered the radioactive isotope carbon-14, died on 31 August at his home in Santa Barbara, California. He was 89 years old. Kamen discovered carbon-14 in 1940 in ...

The carbon-14 isotope is being produced at the Qinshan nuclear power plant, China National Nuclear Corporation has announced. The Qinshan plant (Image: CNNC) According to CNNC the development means ...