Most of life’s engines run on sunlight ... darker waters of the deep sea. If she’s right, the zone of productive ocean may be deeper than anyone thought. “If polar phytoplankton were ...

Could lumpy metallic rocks in the deepest, darkest reaches of the ocean be making oxygen in the absence of sunlight?

12, 2025 — Scientists identify a new way to detect life in outer space with currently ... Gene Related to Human Kidney Disease Linked to Touch in Sea Anemones Mar. 12, 2025 — A new article ...

Biodiversity is depleted and large furrows still lie in the seabed where deep-sea mining equipment operated more than 40 years ago, in findings that suggest it will take the deep sea multiple ...

Organisms in the deep sea rely on gravity flows to lay down sediment and then make burrows beneath the seafloor, according to a new study.

Deep-sea mining may irreparably harm ocean ecosystems before we ... focused mostly in the Pacific Ocean. Life on the deep ocean floor is still a mysterious realm that scientists have only just begun ...