Scientists have long relied on tree rings to learn about ancient solar storms—rare bursts of high-energy particles from the ...

Charlotte Pearson, associate professor of dendrochronology, and Bryan Black, professor of dendrochronology, are using the TIME Lab’s advanced technology to analyze and date tree rings. For years, ...

An enormous solar storm that occurred 7,000 years ago has helped archaeologists to date an ancient settlement in northern Greece. A spike in radiocarbon was spotted in the wood from which these ...

Discovering evidence of deadly deluges of snow from the past could help protect people on mountains around the world, researchers say. By Katherine Kornei A rumble, a deluge of snow and then silence — ...

Horizontal cross sections cut through a trunk of a tree can tell us a little about the history of a tree in its own time ...

Archaeological tree-ring dating: origins and principles -- Lord of the rings: A.E. Douglass and the development of archaeological tree dating, 1914-1929 -- Tree-ring dating at the University of ...

A historic Hunter Creek Valley building was excavated and tree-ring dated on Friday, Sept. 20. The building, which experts think housed farm animals, is made of wood that is around two centuries old, ...