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A Survivor Comes Home
Dr. Paul Aharon and Dr. Steven Jacobs use radiocarbon dating to investigate how old a Torah rescued from the Nazis in the Czech regions of Bohemia and Moravia might be.
Read MoreIs the ‘Gospel of Jesus’s Wife’ a revelation or a hoax?
Harvard University professor Karen L. King with Noreen Tuross investigate a a tiny fragment of ancient Egyptian papyrus whose eight partial lines of Coptic script included one sensational half-sentence: “Jesus said to them, ‘My wife . . .’ ”
Read MoreEarth’s Riverine Bloodstream
MIT/WHOI joint program student Jordan Hemingway unlocks clues to how our planet works by studying rivers.
Read MoreRiver Buries Permafrost Carbon at Sea
NOSAMS Client Valier Galy’s new study tracing the fate of carbon stored in thawing Arctic soils.
Read MoreDevelopment of a Continuous-Flow AMS System
Under a NSF Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) award, NOSAMS has built a new AMS system designed specifically for continuously monitoring 14C in a flowing gas stream. The instrument is capable of continuously analyzing chromatographic effluents and determining the abundance of 14C in individual chromatographic peaks. This system will enable a dramatic expansion of significant and…
Read MoreDevelopment of a Gas-Ion Source
NOSAMS has been exploring the capabilities of a gas-accepting microwave ion source originally built at the Atomic Energy of Canada, Chalk River Laboratories. The source uses 2.45 GHz microwaves and a continuously flowing stream of argon gas to sustain a plasma. Carbon containing gases mixed into the argon yield C+ ions that can be extracted…
Read MoreCollaborative Efforts to Improve NEC Ion Source
A collaborative research effort involving National Electrostatics Corp. (NEC) and three AMS laboratories (UC Irvine, University of Arizona, WHOI/NOSAMS) is underway to improve the design of Cs-sputter ion sources manufactured by NEC and currently in use at each of these labs. The NSF-sponsored collaboration is supported for the two-year period beginning in August, 2003.
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Read MoreSpecks in the Spectrometer
An atomic odyssey from the Great Calcite Belt to a data point by Sarah Rosengard and WHOI/MIT Joint Program student.
Read MoreNOSAMS Newsletter- 2015
Dear friend of NOSAMS We are sending this email to bring you up to date on activities and developments here at NOSAMS and to send you a copy of our new brochure. We are reaching out to you, as a member of our user community, to let you know what new services we have to…
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