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 ...

The main feature of the carbon-14 diamond battery is that it has an overwhelmingly long life compared to conventional batteries. The half-life of carbon-14 is 5730 years, but in reality ...

The amount of carbon-14 in the wood decreases with time as it decays into nitrogen with a half-life of about 5730 years. By comparing how much carbon-14 there is in the dead organism with the ...

A team of scientists and engineers from two British institutions built the world’s first carbon-14 diamond battery that has the potential to deliver low amounts of power for thousands of years.