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

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

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 ...

Dive into DEEP’s visionary ocean pods, transforming marine research, security, and tourism, and discover how they’re ...

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

"It was exciting to discover a new species, but realizing its living arrangement has not been seen before in the region in ...

At dozens of sites, they dropped cameras equipped with bait and watched deep-sea life for hours, according to a study published Jan. 8 in the peer-reviewed Journal of Fish Biology. As they ...

Most life on Earth relies on the sun's energy for survival, but what about organisms in the deep sea that live beyond the reach of its rays? A new study led by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution ...

But deep-sea mining is controversial. Life thousands of feet below sea level tends to be slow-growing and fragile. Even small disruptions to the ocean floor can persist for decades, and scientists ...