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 ...

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