Enlarge / Some of the XENON1T hardware. (credit: XENON collaboration) One of the ways we measure the age of the Earth is using the half-life of uranium. With a half-life of around four billion years, your typical atom of uranium only has even odds of having decayed during Earth's entire history.

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