Researchers have discovered an "unexpected" accumulation of the radioactive isotope beryllium-10, deep underneath the surface of the Pacific Ocean. The team hopes their discovery could serve as an ...

An international team of scientists has found unexpectedly high levels of the rare radioactive isotope beryllium-10 in samples from the Pacific seabed. And they believe it could have been caused ...

This method can distinguish beryllium-10 from its decay product, boron-10, which has the same mass, and from other beryllium isotopes. Another possibility is that a supernova exploded in our galactic ...