The phenomenon of 'dark oxygen,' whereby deep-sea metallic nodules generate oxygen without sunlight, is reshaping our ...

Researchers who discovered “dark oxygen” on the ocean floor are planning a new project to learn even more about their ...

Certain metallic rocks seem to be making oxygen in the dark, without light or sunshine, at the bottom of the ocean.

A flurry of criticism followed the article’s publication, including from the deep-sea mining company that funded the study, ...

Languages: English. Deep-sea researchers have launched a groundbreaking project to investigate "dark oxygen"—a form of oxygen produced in total darkness on the ocean floor. The initiative ...

Scientists from Scripps Institution of Oceanography descended thousands of meters where they likely discovered dozens of new animal species. Creatures flourish where methane gas seeps into the ocean ...

The shock discovery that metallic nodules could be producing oxygen in the deep sea made headlines last year – now the team ...

Dark oxygen denotes oxygen that is produced in the deep ocean without sunlight. It arises from the interaction between rare metal deposits on the ocean floor and saltwater. This oxygen generation ...

When hundreds of eerily perfect circles were discovered on the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea, theories abounded about what ...

Professor Andrew Sweetman and his colleagues set out to measure seafloor respiration but instead stumbled upon a hidden ecosystem capable of producing oxygen. The most crucial ...