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 ...

AMES, Iowa – The long, slow decay of carbon-14 allows archaeologists to accurately date the relics of history back to 60,000 years. And while the carbon dating technique is well known and understood ...

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 ...

(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 ...

Nothing good can last—and in the case of carbon-14, a radioactive isotope found in Earth’s atmosphere, that’s great news for archaeologists. Over time, carbon-14 decays in predictable ways. And with ...