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Dear Friends of NOSAMS, -I am writing to let you know that we have not raised our rates for 2016, which means that our sample fees have remained constant for the last three years.  In addition, our turnaround-time is presently below one month, an all-time low, so this is an excellent time to submit your…

Dr. Kyle Van Houtan turns to an unlikely environmental marker to better understand the life of the world’s seven marine turtle species, all but one of which are endangered. Read more…

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.

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…

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 Inscriptions etched in stone, pottery markings, and historical documents can all offer clues to an artifact’s age.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…