As another plus, this carbon-14 is derived from graphite blocks, which are a byproduct of nuclear fission reactors. So, not ...

At its core, the diamond battery thrives on decay — specifically, the decay of the carbon-14 isotope. Carbon-14 is best known ...

Where would carbon-based life be without carbon? There are 118 known chemical elements, but carbon is the fourth most ...

China claims that it has achieved success in starting mass production of a radioactive isotope –Carbon-14, which has wide ranging uses in science and medicine. The mass production of carbon-14 ...

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 ...

When Philip Sontag first visited Antarctica as a Ph.D. student, he brought back an unusual souvenir: a huge bag of penguin ...

Longer, more diverse rotations of crops fertilized with livestock manure have many environmental benefits, but carbon ...

An unexpected radioactive discovery beneath the Pacific Ocean seabed may provide researchers with a new global geologic time ...

CSIRO, Australia's national science agency, has today launched an important new national resource of isotopic data—food's ...