Researchers found that electric currents from polymetallic nodules are behind this alchemy—the same minerals that deep-sea ...

The discovery that electric rocks make oxygen challenges the long-held belief that only photosynthetic organisms produce our ...

The polymetallic nodules that mining companies hope to harvest from the deep-ocean seafloor may be a source of oxygen for the ...

An ocean that opened up in what is now Mongolia 410 million years ago was created by a hot upwelling of rock known as a mantle plume. Over 400 million years ago, an upwelling of hot rock from ...

Professor Andrew Sweetman, lead author on the study, was part of a team sampling the seabed of the Clarion-Clipperton Zone in ...

The names of the two people who were killed after falling into the water off of a cliff in California have been released.

Hamilton eased herself into the ocean, a frigid 49 degrees that day, followed by several colleagues who braced themselves on surf-drenched rocks. But the waves crashed too high, sending the team ...

Over 400 million years ago, an upwelling of hot rock from Earth's mantle wrenched apart the crust in Mongolia, creating an ocean that survived ... this happens right in the middle of a solid ...

An ocean that opened up in what is now Mongolia 410 million years ago was created by a hot upwelling of rock known as a mantle ... this happens right in the middle of a solid chunk of continent ...