After more than two decades of analysis, researchers from Montana State University have finally revealed how three microbes ...

Last year, the team made headlines when it published a paper describing how metal lumps at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean ...

Radiolysis, the splitting of water molecules through radioactivity, is one of the possible ways oxygen is produced without sunlight. Alternatively, the production of oxygen could involve microbes ...

Certain metallic rocks seem to be making oxygen in the dark, without light or sunshine, at the bottom of the ocean.

Deep beneath the ocean's surface, in the pitch-black abyss, scientists have uncovered a fascinating phenomenon: "dark oxygen.

Clear Lake's water quality suffers from low-to-no-oxygen conditions, finds a report from UC Davis Tahoe Environmental ...

Most life on Earth relies on the sun’s energy for survival, but what about organisms in the deep sea that live beyond the ...