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

Last year, the team made headlines when it published a paper describing how metal lumps at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean seemed to produce oxygen without sunlight ...

A project is underway to investigate the production of “dark” oxygen further. Understanding the phenomenon better could help ...

A breakthrough discovery of oxygen production in darkness could redefine life's origins on Earth and open new frontiers in ...

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 ...

Gas from the seafloor has scientists wondering if oxygen could be found in the oceans of other planets.

The discovery is attracting attention worldwide as it challenges the conventional scientific consensus that oxygen is ...

Prof Sweetman, addressing concerns raised by mining companies such as Canada's Metals Company, stated that upcoming experiments would provide conclusive evidence. He advocated for a cautious approach, ...

Most life on Earth relies on the sun's energy for survival, but what about organisms in the deep sea that live beyond the ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A health worker uses a pulse oximeter to check the oxygen saturation level of another after administering ...

Foraminifera, though eukaryotic, have adapted to use chemoautotrophy to enable them to survive where oxygen and sunlight are ...