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 ...
Gas from the seafloor has scientists wondering if oxygen could be found in the oceans of other planets.
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 ...
Foraminifera, though eukaryotic, have adapted to use chemoautotrophy to enable them to survive where oxygen and sunlight are ...
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 ...