Radiocarbon dating, or carbon-14 dating, is a scientific method that can accurately determine the age of organic materials as old as approximately 60,000 years. First developed in the late 1940s at ...

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...

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 ...

A battery made of diamonds could power devices for thousands of years, scientists have announced. This battery would be powered by a diamond surrounding a radioactive isotope of carbon known as carbon ...

(WHTM) — On this day in 1940 two scientists would isolate an atom that would revolutionize our studies of life on Earth. Martin Kamen and Samuel Ruben were chemists at the University of California ...

Long-lasting batteries can have a profound impact on life-saving medical devices and space-based technologies, and a new diamond battery could extend the lives of these power sources by thousands of ...

Earth’s plants aren’t holding onto carbon as long as we thought. A new analysis of pulses of radioactive carbon-14 from 20th-century bomb tests reveals that plants stock more carbon in short-lived ...

Dedicated at the University of Chicago on October 10, 2016. In 1946, Willard Libby proposed an innovative method for dating organic materials by measuring their content of carbon-14, a newly ...

La Brújula Verde reports that Paleolithic rock art in southwestern France’s Font-de-Gaume Cave has been radiocarbon dated for ...

Russell has a PhD in the history of medicine, violence, and colonialism. His research has explored topics including ethics, science governance, and medical involvement in violent contexts. Russell has ...