Radiocarbon records are critical to understanding the history of Earth’s climate, magnetic field, and the Sun’s activity, say researchers. Radiocarbon is critical to trace and understand changes in ...

The development of monumental architecture and social complexity on the Hawaiian island of Maui occurred over a span of at least 500 years, according to the most detailed study to date on the ...

From thermodynamics to GPS, from social systems theory to studies of consciousness, time plays an essential role in how we study, interpret, and understand the natural universe and the peoples and ...

Earth’s plants aren’t holding onto carbon as long as we thought. A new analysis of pulses of radioactive carbon-14 from 20th-century bomb tests reveals that plants stock more carbon in short-lived ...

Dating is everything in archaeology. Exciting discoveries of ancient burial sites or jewelry might make headlines, but for scientists, this kind of discovery is only meaningful if we can tell how old ...

Although radiocarbon dating has been around for less then a century, it has transformed our understanding of the past 50,000 years, writes Rachel Wood from Australian National University. Radiocarbon ...

One of the fundamental premises of geology is that the “key to understanding the future is to understand the past.” In order to forecast how a volcano will behave, geologists must map the deposits ...

Radiocarbon dating, a technique widely used in archaeology and geoscience, is set to become more accurate than ever after an international team of scientists have shared much-anticipated new ...

A new paper points out the need for an important new refinement to radiocarbon dating. The research has relevance for understanding key dates in Mediterranean history and prehistory, including the ...

Radiocarbon is critical to trace and understand changes in Earth’s climate, carbon cycle and magnetic field, and the Sun’s activity, up to 55,000 years ago Scientists have highlighted how recent ...

The most detailed study to date on the antiquity of the Maui's extensive temple system challenges previous conceptions of ancient Hawaiian civilization by identifying cycles of temple construction ...