Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Scientists have discovered oxygen is being produced extremely deep below the ocean's surface, changing how we think about ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Leslie Katz covers the intersection of culture, science and tech. Sampling the seabed of a mountainous ridge 13,000 feet below the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A mysterious phenomenon first observed in 2013 aboard a vessel in a remote part of the Pacific Ocean appeared so preposterous, it ...

It's long been thought that photosynthesis was basically the only way that oxygen is naturally generated on Earth (some bacteria can also produce oxygen by breaking down nitrates). But a new study has ...

Researchers have discovered bundles of "dark oxygen" being formed on the ocean floor. In a new study, over a dozen scientists from across Europe and the United States studied "polymetallic nodules," ...

In a global first, scientists working in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone in the North Pacific Ocean have found that metallic nodules on the seafloor produce their own oxygen, dubbed "dark oxygen." When ...

A mysterious phenomenon first observed in 2013 aboard a vessel in a remote part of the Pacific Ocean appeared so preposterous, it convinced ocean scientist Andrew Sweetman that his monitoring ...