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, also known as carbon-14 dating, is a method to determine the age of organic materials as old as 60,000 years. First developed in the 1940s at the University of Chicago by Willard ...

A newly uncovered section of the Great Wall of China, dating back nearly 3,000 years, has pushed the wall's origins back by 300 years, revealing its roots in the late Western Zhou Dynasty. View on eur ...