Radioactive spike found in Pacific seabed samples. It could be from space radiation or changes in ocean currents 10 million ...

The Pacific seafloor laid down around 10 million years ago is dramatically enriched in beryllium-10, compared to older and ...

Surface currents are relatively easy to measure and track. But those in the deep ocean are mostly a mystery. Now, a new study published in Nature Geoscience unveiled the biggest data set to date ...

Work in Japan and Australia has revealed that a deep-ocean current is carrying frigid water rapidly northward from Antarctica along the edge of a giant underwater plateau. Understanding such ...

Beryllium-10 is a radioactive isotope that is continuously produced by cosmic rays interacting with Earth's atmosphere. When ...

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 has discovered an unexpected ...

Earth must have experienced something exceptional 10 million years ago. Our study of rock samples from the floor of the ...

Accumulating evidence indicates that strong stratification restricted the supply of nutrients from the deep ocean to the ... are by the strong Southern Ocean currents. Moreover, the extremely ...

Hercules can dive as deep as 13,100 feet ... The E/V Nautilus expedition has been focused on understanding how ocean currents interact with the island of Palau. “These interactions generate ...

As this salty water cools, it becomes denser, and sinks, before flowing back towards the southern hemisphere as a deep ocean current. This water eventually gets pulled back up to the surface ...