SEVERAL articles 1–3 have described efforts to reconcile radiocarbon ages with “true ages”. The principle behind these procedures lies in the determination of a radiocarbon age and its ...

UChicago science historian Emily Kern has documented how radiocarbon dating developed in an unusual Cold War context. She described how the technique developed into a wide-ranging, global network from ...

Radiocarbon-based analyses can now accomplish sufficient resolution for meaningful independent estimates of Inka chronology, however, and it is incumbent upon archaeologists to develop such appraisals ...

Investopedia / Yurle Villegas A Lorenz curve, developed by American economist Max Lorenz in 1905, is a graphical representation of income inequality or wealth inequality. The graph plots ...

Dendrochronology, or tree-ring dating, provides absolute dates in two different ways: directly, and by calibrating radiocarbon results. Direct Dating of Wood Cross-dating determines the age of ...

PDFs are usually plotted on a graph that typically resembles a bell curve, with the data lying below the curve. A skewed curve at either end indicates greater or lesser risk/reward. Understanding ...

How close were the Nazis to developing an atomic bomb? The truth is that National Socialist Germany could not possibly have built a weapon like the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima or Nagasaki.

Andrew Smith, Dr. Quan Hua and Dr. Bin Yang have contributed to a paper that elucidates how in situ cosmogenic radiocarbon (14 C) is produced, retained and lost in the top layer of compacting snow ...

MANY factors may influence the total milk yield of a single lactation, but the general shape of the curve, defined by the locus of weekly yield, remains substantially unchanged. Economically ...

The men are told they will be dropping a bomb with an explosive force of 20,000 tonnes of TNT on a Japanese city. It will destroy everything within a three-mile radius of its impact point.

The story of the atomic bomb. Told through the scientists and spies who changed history. The race to beat the Nazis and stolen secrets. Show more The story of the atomic bomb. Told through the ...

For six consecutive days, Indian airlines have faced numerous bomb hoax threats, affecting nearly 90 flights. Major hubs like Mumbai and New Delhi were significantly disrupted. The Bureau of Civil ...