At first, Professor Glen Jackson, who teaches forensic and investigative science at West Virginia University, had a hard time explaining to me what isotopes are. He told me he is used to speaking with ...

Oxygen isotopes data enable researchers to look far back into the geologic past and reconstruct the climate of the past. In doing so, they consider several factors such as ocean temperature and ice ...

Isotope analysis, and in particular compound‐specific stable isotope analysis (CSIA), has emerged as an indispensable tool in the investigation of environmental biodegradation. By measuring the subtle ...

Archaeologists at UC Santa Cruz used predictive modeling to map strontium isotope ratios across all of modern-day Angola, a region in Southwest Africa that was once a major hub for the transatlantic ...

Isotopic analysis primarily involves the separation of isotopes based on the significant differences in mass. The method is effective for identifying the isotopic signature within the inorganic and ...

For the next five years, the University of Wyoming’s Stable Isotope Facility (SIF) will be the go-to laboratory to analyze National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) soil samples from across the ...

The city of Pompeii was buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79. Researchers at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz ...

Some of the world’s earliest cities were built about 7,000 years ago by Trypillia societies in what today we call Ukraine and Moldova. Archaeologists have long wondered how these densely settled ...

Shaun Adams receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Mark Collard receives funding from the Canada Research Chairs Program, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, the British Columbia ...

Vikings brought horses and dogs to the British Isles from Scandinavia, a new study suggests. A chemical analysis of bone fragments from a cemetery in England provides the first solid scientific ...