In September 1859, the same year that Darwin published "On the Origin of Species," telegraph systems across Europe and North ...

Solar storms cause disturbances in the Earth's magnetic shield, or magnetosphere. One frequent way they are caused is by ...

Identified as species of Commiphora, part of the frankincense and myrrh family, plant lacks fragrance but medical compound ...

Researchers and local Indigenous people say a beautifully preserved metre-wide and 40-centimetres-high tree stump may be a ...

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 ...

Your donation makes it possible for us to keep doing this important work, keeping you informed every step of the way to the November election Solar storms arise as a flux of charged particles flung ...

The Falkland Islands were once home to a rainforest that researchers described as "lush and diverse". The rainforest covered ...

The invention of radiocarbon dating elegantly merged chemistry and physics to develop a scientific method that can accurately determine the age of organic materials as old as approximately 60,000 ...

If the artifact is organic—like wood or bone—researchers can turn to a method called radiocarbon dating. It's a process that dates an object by analyzing the different forms of carbon it contains.

The strength of some past extreme solar storms detected in tree rings suggest they would have played havoc with our technological infrastructure on a scale never seen before. One extreme solar storm ...

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