Imagine if we could find a way to capture the greenhouse gases that are warming our planet. One way to do this is carbon ...
From there, the problem becomes how to measure the carbon-14. Libby and fellow chemists at the University of Chicago and other institutions developed techniques to purify a sample so that it emits no ...
Samples returned from an asteroid contain a surprising abundance of the basic ingredients of life. They were discovered to be ...
Flasks are shipped back to a lab at Scripps Oceanography, where they are attached to analysis equipment and the amount of carbon dioxide in the sample is measured. The carbon dioxide in the samples is ...