The First Carbon-14 Diamond Battery Is Here—and It Will Run for 5,700 Years
As another plus, this carbon-14 is derived from graphite blocks, which are a byproduct of nuclear fission reactors. So, not ...
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This Carbon-14 Radioactive Diamond Battery Could Last Longer Than Human Civilization
At its core, the diamond battery thrives on decay — specifically, the decay of the carbon-14 isotope. Carbon-14 is best known ...
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What Is Carbon? Life's Most Crucial Element, Explained
Where would carbon-based life be without carbon? There are 118 known chemical elements, but carbon is the fourth most ...
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Carbon-14 dating, explained
First developed in the late 1940s at the University of Chicago by Willard Libby, the technique is based on the decay of the carbon-14 isotope. Radiocarbon dating has been used for historical studies ...
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Penguins Help to Map Antarctica’s Growing Mercury Threat
When Philip Sontag first visited Antarctica as a Ph.D. student, he brought back an unusual souvenir: a huge bag of penguin ...
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Diversified cropping systems boost nitrogen supply but not soil carbon, study finds
Longer, more diverse rotations of crops fertilized with livestock manure have many environmental benefits, but carbon ...
New tool to verify Aussie food product claims and green credentials
CSIRO, Australia's national science agency, has today launched an important new national resource of isotopic data—food's ...