Radiocarbon dating can fail, but archeology can still save the day. This is the key message of the seminar that Elisabetta Boaretto, physicist of the Weizmann Institute in Israel, will give at SISSA ...

Solar storms cause disturbances in the Earth's magnetic shield, or magnetosphere. One frequent way they are caused is by ...

In September 1859, the same year that Darwin published "On the Origin of Species," telegraph systems across Europe and North ...

The new study also indicates the Polynesian people who settled Rapa Nui mixed with indigenous South Americans centuries ...

Scientists have mapped the genome of the Greenland shark, which could offer clues to the animal’s extreme longevity.

The final two chapters focus on recent changes in Irish food culture over the last six decades. Firstly, the growing ...

Editor’s note: This is part of a series called “The Day Tomorrow Began,” which explores the history of breakthroughs at UChicago. Learn more here. Radiocarbon dating, or carbon-14 dating, is a ...

Radiocarbon dating is one of the key discoveries of the twentieth century. Archaeologists have recently begun to employ high precision radiocarbon dating to explore the chronology of the Iron Age in ...

New findings suggest alternative reasons for the rapid demographic changes in Iberia between the Copper and Bronze Ages.

Researchers and local Indigenous people say a beautifully preserved metre-wide and 40-centimetres-high tree stump may be a ...