An international team of researchers recently discovered that some 13,000 feet below the ocean’s surface, oxygen may be produced through natural electrolysis. The group found that small lumps called ...

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 ...

Scientists have discovered oxygen is being produced extremely deep below the ocean's surface, changing how we think about life at the bottom of the sea. Researchers discovered the presence of strange ...

Researchers have discovered bundles of "dark oxygen" being formed on the ocean floor. In a new study, over a dozen scientists from across Europe and the United States studied "polymetallic nodules," ...

In a global first, scientists working in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone in the North Pacific Ocean have found that metallic nodules on the seafloor produce their own oxygen, dubbed "dark oxygen." When ...

It's long been thought that photosynthesis was basically the only way that oxygen is naturally generated on Earth (some bacteria can also produce oxygen by breaking down nitrates). But a new study has ...

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 ...

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