Beryllium-10, a rare radioactive isotope produced by cosmic rays in the atmosphere, provides valuable insights into the Earth's geological history. A research team from the Helmholtz-Zentrum ...

An unexpected radioactive discovery beneath the Pacific Ocean seabed may provide researchers with a new global geologic time marker. According to a study published on February 10th in the journal ...

Earth must have experienced something exceptional 10 million years ago. Our study of rock samples from the floor of the Pacific Ocean has found a strange increase in the radioactive isotope ...

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Beryllium-10 spike in Pacific sediments hints at nearby supernova 10 million years ago, revealing cosmic impacts on Earth’s ...

Atmospheric radionuclides, both naturally occurring and anthropogenic, play a pivotal role in elucidating the dynamic processes governing aerosol behaviour and transport. These radioactive isotopes, ...

A strange radioactive 'blip' has been detected deep beneath the Pacific Ocean. The beryllium-10 blip was detected in the seabeds of the Central and the Northern Pacific, but the authors behind the ...