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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.

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 . . .’ ”

MIT/WHOI joint program student Jordan Hemingway unlocks clues to how our planet works by studying rivers.

NOSAMS Client Valier Galy’s new study tracing the fate of carbon stored in thawing Arctic soils.

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An atomic odyssey from the Great Calcite Belt to a data point by Sarah Rosengard and WHOI/MIT Joint Program student.

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Radiocarbon Dating Archeologists use a number of methods to date the objects they find. Inscriptions etched in stone, pottery markings, and historical documents can all offer clues to an artifact’s age. But what happens when there’s no written information available and the design of an object can’t peg it to a particular time? If the…

NOSAMS’ clients Jeff Donnelly and Andrea Hawkes of prehistoric hurricanes shows the intensity and frequency of hurricanes the U.S. could experience could intensify as ocean temperatures increase with climate change. Read More…

This article from phys.org highlights MIT/WHOI joint program student Li Ling Hamady student uses radiocarbon dating in to show Great White sharks grow much slower and live significantly longer than previously thought.