In this interactive, learn how radiocarbon dating works, what it takes to determine a date in the lab, and why it's challenging to pinpoint a date precisely.—David Levin ...

AFTER full discussion of the new determinations 1–3 of the half-life of carbon-14, the Fifth Radiocarbon Dating Conference, meeting at Cambridge (see p. 943 of this issue of Nature), adopted the ...

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 ...

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It's one thing to dwell on your possible date of death. The more important part of the equation is what you can do about it. If you dig deeper into the app, you'll find motivational tools ...

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 ...

Ever heard of the Death Clock? It's a web-based tool that prides itself on predicting your precise and exact date of death. Well, many people may have a problem with that, yet others would have no ...

How have energy sources changed since 2001? By The Learning Network A new collection of graphs, maps and charts organized by topic and type from our “What’s Going On in This Graph?” ...

Until recently, little was known about Bishop Teodomiro, who, after St James the Apostle, is one of the most important figures associated with the pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela.