Researchers who discovered “dark oxygen” on the ocean floor are planning a new project to learn even more about their ...

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

Certain metallic rocks seem to be making oxygen in the dark, without light or sunshine, at the bottom of the ocean.

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 ...

Andrew Sweetman, a professor at the UK's Scottish Association for Marine Science, has embarked on a three-year project to investigate the production of "dark" oxygen. As part of their $2.7 million ...

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