First developed in the 1940s at the University of Chicago by Willard Libby, the breakthrough technique ushered in the “radiocarbon revolution” and impacted fields from archaeology to climate ...

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 ...

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 ...

So what's the story behind radiocarbon dating? It's not a love story, to be sure. Rather, it's a way to determine the age of organic remains such as bone, teeth, and seeds by finding out how much ...

Radiocarbon dating is one of the key discoveries of the twentieth century. Archaeologists have recently begun to employ high precision radiocarbon dating to explore the chronology of the Iron Age in ...

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 ...

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In order to determine how “old” this dissolved organic carbon is, its natural radiocarbon activity has been measured for two deep-water samples taken off southern California.

When it comes to wry observations, editorial cartoonists serve up some of the best. Here’s a look at the cartoons that graced the pages of the Calgary Herald this past week.

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October 8, 2024 • After his father was killed by Israeli settlers raiding his village in the central West Bank, he says, 15-year-old Noor Assi sometimes envies other teens, but says, "I have a ...