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.

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 ...

In 1940 Martin Kamen discovered radioactive carbon-14 (an isotope of carbon) and found that it had a half-life of about 5,700 years. Scientists had also found that some of the nitrogen in the ...

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 ...

Radio carbon dating determines the age of ancient objects by means of measuring the amount of carbon-14 there is left in an object. A man called Willard F Libby pioneered it at the University of ...

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 ...