Children are always asking "Why?" As they experience things for the first time, it's natural to want to find out more. But as ...

A newly discovered mechanism could explain the shock finding last year that oxygen is produced by metallic nodules on the ...

Some scientists think so, but others have challenged the claim that so-called "dark oxygen" is being produced in the lightless abyss of the seabed. The discovery -- detailed last July in the ...

It took me until 2021, when I measured oxygen production with a second method, that I realised we'd found something exceptional: dark oxygen – oxygen that's produced without sunlight.

The discovery questions long-held assumptions about the origins of life on Earth Environmentalists said the presence of dark oxygen showed just how little is known about life at these extreme ...

It took me until 2021, when I measured oxygen production with a second method, that I realised we’d found something exceptional: dark oxygen – oxygen that’s produced without sunlight. In the summer of ...

Some scientists think so, but others have challenged the claim that so-called “dark oxygen” is being produced in the lightless abyss of the seabed. The discovery — detailed last July in the ...

Could lumpy metallic rocks in the deepest, darkest reaches of the ocean be making oxygen in the absence of sunlight? Some scientists think so, but others have challenged the claim that so-called "dark ...