How does carbon dating work? How was it invented, and what discoveries were made with it? Learn about the technique and what it revealed about our world.

Carbon dating has helped us reveal how our bodies work, to understand the climate of the Earth and reconstruct its history, and to track the sun’s activity and the Earth’s magnetic fields. Radiocarbon ...

Radio carbon dating determines the age of ancient objects ... By counting how many carbon-14 atoms in any object with carbon in it, we can work out how old the object is - or how long ago it ...

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