Paul Renne’s laboratory at the Berkeley Geochronology Center took eight crystals blasted out of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79 and ...

Erupting in 79 CE, Mount Vesuvius serves as a significant case study for scientists delving into Earth’s geological history. Through the analysis of minerals created during its eruption, researchers ...

Scientists used the precisely recorded 79 CE eruption of Mount Vesuvius to recalibrate argon-argon dating, reducing uncertainty for a nearly 2,000-year-old volcanic event to just 13 years. The new ...

According to Pliny the Younger, Mount Vesuvius erupted on August 24th, 79 CE. That date is now helping geochronologists modify a common mineral dating technique. Reading time 3 minutes “Argon-argon ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The plaster cast of a man killed by the Vesuvius eruption in A.D. 79 also contains the remains of a small case and a small bag he ...

A new study published today in the journal Science Advances reports that the argon-argon dating method calibrated with that August 24, 79 CE is now even more precise. Argon-argon dating measures the ...

Learn how AI and CT scans recovered 22 columns of ancient Greek text from a scroll burned in the 79 C.E. Mount Vesuvius eruption. When researchers partially opened a scroll from Herculaneum, a Roman ...

See how Vine FX recreated the city of Pompeii and the volcanic eruption that buried it for the National Geographic docudrama.

For all of the terrible uses for AI we constantly encounter out there in this fresh new hellscape of the internet, there are some positive uses out there. They are often found in scientific research, ...

Almost every book that survives from the ancient world does so because somebody copied it by hand. But one Roman library ...

By re-creating carbonized scrolls, researchers found lead-based ink is easier to detect with X-rays, potentially helping AI reveal texts in Herculaneum scrolls.