Nuclear tests may hold key to missing-persons cases
Photo credit: Jacqueline McBride | In an undated photo at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, scientist Bruce Buchholz works on the accelerator mass spectrometry equipment at the lab, the equipment used in the dating technique for human remains.
The combination of remnants from Cold War nuclear testing and "CSI"-style technology may hold the key to identifying Gilgo Beach victims and resolving missing-persons cases around the country.
Scientists at the federal government's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, working with experts in Sweden and Canada, have been using carbon-14 dating to come up with more finely tuned...
Faces of the Gilgo victims