Krypton, the noble gas better known for its fictional association with Superman, has become one of the most telling chemical tracers in planetary science. By measuring krypton isotopes locked inside ...

Dating is everything in archaeology. Exciting discoveries of ancient burial sites or jewelry might make headlines, but for scientists, this kind of discovery is only meaningful if we can tell how old ...

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 carbon ...

Martin Kamen and Samuel Ruben's discovery of the radioactive isotope carbon-14 in 1940 helped usher in a new era of dating artifacts from past civilizations. When you purchase through links on our ...

Like everything we see in the world, isotopes are a type of atom, the smallest unit of matter that retains all the chemical properties of an element. Isotopes are forms of a chemical element with ...

Astronomers have counted the number of neutrons inside carbon atoms from 2.8 quadrillion km away. The team managed to measure the ratios of carbon isotopes in the atmosphere of an exoplanet for the ...

(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 ...

This work was partially supported by the EPSRC Doctoral Training Partnership Grant EP/N509735/1 to U.E. and by the MRC (MR/R025126/1), the Crafoord Foundation, the Swedish Research Council (2020-03485 ...

On this day in 1940, two scientists discovered an elusive form of carbon — and inadvertently opened a window into lost civilizations. Since the mid-1930s, scientists had predicted the existence of a ...