The deep sea holds many secrets, with more than 80% of it being unmapped, unexplored, and unseen by any human in history. The ...

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Along certain parts of the ocean floor lies a bounty of rare minerals ... set up a series of rules that will allow not just the exploration of these international waters, but potentially also ...

Indeed, we are already in conversation with experts at NASA who believe that dark oxygen could reshape our understanding of how life might be sustained on other ocean worlds like Enceladus and ...

The Kexue, seen in 2019, is one of China’s vessels for exploring deep waters. The ocean floor is shaping up to be the next theater of global resource competition. (Zhang Jinggang/Imaginechina/AP ...

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