Uncovering dark oxygen revealed just how little is known about the deep ocean, and the Clarion-Clipperton Zone, or CCZ, in particular.The region is being explored for the deep-sea mining of rare ...

New research challenges a long-held assumption about oxygen in the deep sea, with scientists finding oxygen produced without photosynthesis in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone.

Scientists have observed a never-before-seen form of oxygen, and its behavior could call into question what nuclear physics ...

The discovery of this deep-sea oxygen, dubbed "dark oxygen," is the first time scientists have ever observed oxygen being generated without the involvement of organisms and challenges what we know ...

It’s one of the earliest things you learn in elementary school science class—Earth’s life-sustaining oxygen is produced by plants and algae during photosynthesis using a combination of ...

Scientists have discovered oxygen is being produced extremely deep below the ocean's surface, changing how we think about life at the bottom of the sea.

Models suggest that Earth’s oxygen levels could drop as low as those of Archean Earth, when microbial life was the only life to be found on our little blue and green planet. Tech. Entertainment ...

We think of oxygen as life, sustenance, a literal breath of fresh air. But it's actually a very reactive element. Anyone who's burned a log has witnessed this firsthand. So why do so many life ...

Does yawning mean our brains aren’t getting enough oxygen? Researchers believe yawning may serve an important physiological purpose. There is no consensus, however, on what that is.