of radiocarbon in our bodies. When the neutron collides, a nitrogen-14 (seven protons, seven neutrons) atom turns right into a carbon-14 atom (six protons, eight neutrons) and a hydrogen atom (one proton, zero neutrons). Carbon-14 is radioactive, with a half-life of about 5,seven-hundred years. By measuring whether these ranges of Carbon-13 are skewed in an […]