Last year, the team made headlines when it published a paper describing how metal lumps at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean ...

The 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 ...

Scientists who recently discovered that metal lumps on the dark seabed make oxygen, have announced plans to study the deepest ...

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

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 ...

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 follows last year's ...

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

Andrew Sweetman, a professor at the UK’s Scottish Association for Marine Science who was behind the find, is embarking on a three-year project to investigate the production of “dark” oxygen ...

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