A mystery dating back nearly a century about a skull believed to belong to Cleopatra's murdered half-sister has been solved ...

Thanks to Radiocarbon in Tree-Rings' Experts Learn Timing of 'Cataclysmic' Solar Storm That Hit Earth Around 2687 Years Ago Scientists using their particular method of analysis have finally ...

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 ...

Learn more here. 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 ...

Archaeologists excavating a Spanish stone-and-adobe structure in Arizona uncovered a 480-year-old gun. Experts believe the “wall gun” was associated with the Coronado expedition. The wall gun is now ...

In 1940 Martin Kamen discovered radioactive carbon-14 (an isotope of carbon) and found that it had a half-life of about 5,700 years. Scientists had also found that some of the nitrogen in the ...

La Brea Tar Pits scientists have successfully identified a previously unknown species to Southern California through fossilized seeds. This discovery sheds light on a drought-driven dance between two ...

Roxy is “one of the most significant finds” involving an Ice Age animal in northeastern Utah, officials said. Retired ...

At the Laboratory of Chronology, we conduct hundreds of radiocarbon analyses each year for archaeologists, geologists, environmental scientists, and industry. Timelines from carbon When an organism ...

The research has been published in the journal Science. A team from the US Geological Survey carried out radiocarbon dating on seeds found in sediment layers above and below where the footprints ...

They said that using an atmospheric radiocarbon signal produced by a dated solar storm as a reference, they were able to pin the "exact felling year of the tree" to 1021. Such a solar storm - a ...