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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

But Prof Sweetman says the dark oxygen they make could also support ... raises new concerns about the risks of proposed deep-sea mining ventures. Science Photo Library/NOAA The scientists worked ...

"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 ...

The discovery of dark oxygen at an abyssal plain on the ocean floor generated a lot of interest. Could this oxygen source ...

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 ...