Navigating the dating scene is tricky. At times, it can seem like there are an infinite number of potential mates out there. At other times, it feels like there are none at all. How does one filter ...

Willard F. Libby, the American chemist well-known as the discoverer of the carbon 14 (radiocarbon) dating technique for which he won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1960. Thirteen hominid teeth that ...

WHEN CARBON dating was discovered in 1946, it revolutionised archaeology. An age could suddenly be put to unearthed remains of living things that had expired within the past 50,000 years. But changes ...

The Shroud of Turin Center in Colorado Springs is preparing linen samples similar to the materials used in the Shroud of Turin in an attempt to determine whether or not the carbon dating tests of the ...

Radiocarbon dating was invented 70 years ago with a little help from the University of Arizona, and the scientific breakthrough just keeps improving with age. A worldwide working group of researchers, ...

Radiocarbon dating is set to become more accurate than ever after an international team of scientists improved the technique for assessing the age of historical objects. Radiocarbon dating is set to ...

TOLEDO, Ohio — Carbon dating has revealed the age of an object that is among the oldest artifacts in northwest Ohio. The Toledo History Museum said it funded a radiocarbon dating test to determine the ...

(WHTM) — On this day in 1940 two scientists would isolate an atom that would revolutionize our studies of life on Earth. Martin Kamen and Samuel Ruben were chemists at the University of California ...

A new technique determines the age of artworks from lead white paint samples taken from the edges of a canvas, giving experts a less invasive way to uncover forgeries (Anal. Chem. 2020, DOI: ...