After these researchers unexpectedly found carbon-based drawings in the Font-de-Gaume cave, they returned to pinpoint when the figures were drawn ...

While the remains in the coffin were not those of an elite member of society, radiocarbon dating revealed that they were a ...

A research team led by a CNRS researcher has for the first time accurately determined the age of the cave paintings at ...

For decades, scientists have relied on tree rings to estimate how long trees can live. But new research suggests that this widely used method may have been underestimating the lifespan of many ...

Our view of the ancient past is set to become a bit clearer after an international team of scientists completed a major recalibration of radiocarbon dating. The seven-year global effort used almost 15 ...

In 1899, something strange happened in the small village of Bagicz, Poland: a coffin fell off a cliff near the Baltic Sea. Inside, archaeologists found a well-preserved skeleton of a woman from the ...

Sealing off a sample vial with a hydrogen-oxygen torch; the bright-white light of the extremely hot torch requires special safety goggles to avoid human eye damage. × A centuries-old kernel of corn’s ...

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 ...

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, ...