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 ...
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Scientists say they found oxygen where it shouldn’t be. Now, the hunt is on for more answersA project is underway to investigate the production of “dark” oxygen further. Understanding the phenomenon better could help ...
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Dark oxygen: New deep sea expedition to explore mysterious discoveryThe shock discovery that metallic nodules could be producing oxygen in the deep sea made headlines last year – now the team ...
A breakthrough discovery of oxygen production in darkness could redefine life's origins on Earth and open new frontiers in ...
Gas from the seafloor has scientists wondering if oxygen could be found in the oceans of other planets.
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 ...
The discovery is attracting attention worldwide as it challenges the conventional scientific consensus that oxygen is ...
Until this discovery, it was believed that oxygen could not be produced without sunlight Scientists have discovered “dark oxygen” being produced in the deep ocean, apparently by lumps of metal ...
Most life on Earth relies on the sun's energy for survival, but what about organisms in the deep sea that live beyond the ...
Foraminifera, though eukaryotic, have adapted to use chemoautotrophy to enable them to survive where oxygen and sunlight are ...
Dark oxygen: How the discovery of new oxygen deep underwater has reignited the search for alien life
For over a decade, researchers led by Andrew Sweetman of the Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS) encountered perplexing data indicating the presence of oxygen in this lightless environment.
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