The natural clocks that can pinpoint someone's time of death

When something dies, a telltale radioactive signal ticks like a natural clock. Discovering it helped us solve all sorts of ...

Skull found on Indiana riverbank may be over 4,000 years old, coroner says

A local resident discovered a human skull dating back millennia along the bank of the Whitewater River in eastern Indiana, ...
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AI analysis of ancient handwriting gives new age estimates for Dead Sea Scrolls

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AI and Radiocarbon Dating Redraw the Timeline of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Ancient Script Evolution

“It’s like a time machine. So we can shake hands with these people from 2,000 years ago, and we can put them in time much better now,” said Professor Mladen Popović, University of Groningen, in ...
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Museum's historical artifact likely among oldest in northwest Ohio, carbon dating reveals

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 ...
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A.I. Analysis Rewrites the Timeline of the Dead Sea Scrolls

The Dead Sea Scrolls may be older than previously estimated, according to new research that has brought together radio carbon dating and artificial intelligence. Comprising thousands of fragments of ...
The Atlantic

Stanford Elephant Research Goes Fully Solar; Ushering Carbon Dating Into the Future

Discovered: Stanford research encampment fueled solely by sun; Japanese lake key to updated carbon dating; expiring tax credit could stall wind power; global warming changes sea acoustics. Elephant ...