Potato-size metallic nodules strewn across the Pacific Ocean seafloor produce oxygen in complete darkness and without any ...

These deep-sea rocks, known as polymetallic nodules ... a process the researchers have termed "dark oxygen" because it occurs without sunlight. However, the exact mechanism remains unclear ...

Researchers from Boston University have made a startling discovery: rocks are producing "dark oxygen" in a region currently ...

Rocks are generating 'dark oxygen' in an area being explored for deep-sea mining. Over 12,000 feet below the surface of the sea, in a region of the Pacific Ocean known as the Clarion-Clipperton ...

Scientists posit that the formation of dark oxygen is an electrochemical process. The polymetallic nodules in the deep sea behave like a geobattery in which they "generate a small electric current ...

Andrew Sweetman, of the Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS), made the 'dark oxygen' discovery ... But we now know that there is oxygen produced in the deep sea, where there is no ...

In the dark? Indeed! An international collaboration of ... was that it was being produced by microbial activity. To investigate this oxygen production, the team deployed deep sea chambers that land on ...

"These geobatteries are the basis for a possible explanation of the ocean's dark oxygen production." The discovery that abyssal, or deep-sea, nodules are producing oxygen is "an amazing and ...

Researchers say the polymetallic nodules that mining companies hope to harvest from the deep-ocean seafloor may be a source ...

Scattered across the bottom of the world’s oceans and seas is a resource so abundant it could power the planet’s transition to a greener future. But there’s a catch – a big one. Join ST's ...

In the depths of the Pacific Ocean, about 12,000 feet below the surface, lies a region called the Clarion-Clipperton Zone ...

There are plenty of questions to continue asking, Marlow says, about what the dark oxygen discovery means for extraterrestrial oceans and our own. “For the most part, we think of the deep sea as ...