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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Researchers analyze the ratios of calcium isotopes in bones and fossils to learn more about what dinosaurs once ate. Credit: ...

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 ...