Scientists studying the deep Pacific Ocean floor have encountered a finding that, if confirmed, would force a rewrite of ...

Metallic nodules found deep in the sea seem to be producing significant amounts of oxygen by some unknown mechanism, researchers revealed last year. Now, we may have found out how it is happening – ...

A bizarre new discovery in the deep Pacific Ocean has scientists scratching their heads, and for good reason. Far beneath the ocean’s surface, in a region where sunlight never reaches, oxygen is being ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Scientists have come to realize that in the soil and rocks beneath our feet there lies a vast biosphere with a global volume nearly ...

Potato-sized lumps of metal on the seafloor are generating oxygen, a new study has found. Scientists previously believed that oxygen was strictly formed as a byproduct of photosynthesizing plants.

Little Deming Lake doesn't get much notice from visitors to Itasca State Park in Minnesota. There's better boating on nearby Lake Itasca, the headwaters of the Mississippi River. My colleagues and I ...