Radiocarbon dating, or carbon-14 dating, is a scientific method that can accurately determine the age of organic materials as old as approximately 60,000 years. First developed in the late 1940s at ...

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 ...

Dedicated at the University of Chicago on October 10, 2016. In 1946, Willard Libby proposed an innovative method for dating organic materials by measuring their content of carbon-14, a newly ...

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The development of a high precision record of atmospheric radiocarbon shifts beyond 14,000 calendar years BP - obtained through combined studies (e.g., dendrochronology, radiocarbon dating and ...

In 1988, an international team of scientific experts performed radiocarbon dating on snippets of the Shroud of Turin. The results showed that the famous cloth did not date back to the time of Christ’s ...

While Mel Gibson’s thrilling film “Apocalypto” attempted to depict a clear image of Mayan culture, it didn’t. There are in reality extensive gaps in our understanding of this civilization. In a recent ...

Radiocarbon dating of ancient human footprints at White Sands National Park in New Mexico confirmed that humans were present in North America approximately 10,000 years earlier than previously ...

Cavity ring‐down spectroscopy (CRDS) is a highly sensitive optical technique that measures the time it takes for light to decay within an optical cavity. This decay time is affected by the presence of ...

One of the most appealing features of Australia is its wildlife. Only a few places in the world can surpass Australia in terms of its flora and fauna. Despite the diversity of the animals found in ...