An international team of researchers has discovered that metallic minerals on the deep-ocean floor produce oxygen -- 13,000 feet below the surface. Discovery challenges long-held assumptions that only ...
A new study published in the journal Nature Geoscience found evidence of oxygen production near polymetallic nodules located deep in the ocean. Called dark oxygen, this oxygen is being produced ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mining of rare metals on deep sea and ocean floors miles below the surface could create "dark oxygen" and also cause potentially ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A mysterious phenomenon first observed in 2013 aboard a vessel in a remote part of the Pacific Ocean appeared so preposterous, it ...
Polymetallic nodules, collected from the ocean floor, sit in simulated seawater in chemist Franz Geiger's laboratory at Northwestern University. An international team of researchers, including a ...
A mysterious phenomenon first observed in 2013 aboard a vessel in a remote part of the Pacific Ocean appeared so preposterous, it convinced ocean scientist Andrew Sweetman that his monitoring ...
An international team of researchers, including a Northwestern University chemist, has discovered that metallic minerals on the deep-ocean floor produce oxygen — 13,000 feet below the surface. The ...