Learn more here. Radiocarbon dating, or carbon-14 dating, is a scientific method that can accurately determine the age of organic materials as old as approximately 60,000 years. First developed in the ...

This isn’t science fiction—it’s the promise of the carbon-14 diamond battery, a revolutionary energy source developed by researchers at the University of Bristol and the UK Atomic Energy ...

Scientists at the Northwest Normal University have built China’s first such nuclear battery using carbon-14, a widely used ...

Martin Kamen, the scientist who co-discovered the radioactive isotope carbon-14, died on 31 August at his home in Santa Barbara, California. He was 89 years old. Kamen discovered carbon-14 in 1940 in ...

Meanwhile, South Korean researchers have developed a prototype betavoltaic battery powered by the carbon-14 isotope. The uranium battery concept (Image: JAEA) The uranium storage battery utilises ...