Editor’s note: This is part of a series called “The Day Tomorrow Began,” which explores the history of breakthroughs at UChicago. Learn more here. Radiocarbon dating, or carbon-14 dating, is a ...

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 ...

Radio carbon dating determines the age of ancient objects by means of measuring the amount of carbon-14 there is left in an object. A man called Willard F Libby pioneered it at the University of ...

Scientists have calculated the Earth to be 4.54 billion years old, with an uncertainty of 50 million years on either side.

The tulip tree (Liriodendron tulipifera) may significantly contribute to carbon management thanks to its wood, which is ...

If the gland is enlarged, iodine-131 can be absorbed and will partially destroy it. Carbon-14 Used to date once-living materials. Every living organism contains the radioisotope carbon-14.

In 1940 Martin Kamen discovered radioactive carbon-14 (an isotope of carbon ... could determine the age of plant-based artifacts -- wood, parchment, textiles -- up to 45,000 years old.

As Baril discusses, many of Ötzi’s belongings were composed of once-living organic materials, such as plant fibres, wood and leather ... accurately using carbon dating. The discovery of ...

Researchers from the University of Maryland have suggested this novel approach to capture and store atmospheric carbon for ...

Soil carbon storage is a vital ecosystem service, resulting from interactions of ecological processes. Human activities affecting these processes can lead to carbon loss or improved storage.

It was criticised by climate activists at the time as a 'carbon bomb'. Mr Blair faced criticism in 2014 for agreeing a deal ...

The carpet tiles combine with a backing that has bio-based materials that store carbon with specialty yarns and tufting processes. Urban Machine uses robotics to clean wood so it can be reused in ...