Researchers who discovered “dark oxygen” on the ocean floor are planning a new project to learn even more about their ...

The shock discovery that metallic nodules could be producing oxygen in the deep sea made headlines last year – now the team ...

In the early 1950s, Marie Tharp began connecting dots to map the ocean floor, using sonar technology. Sonar detects underwater objects by timing the echo of a soundwave and was originally ...

They suggested that as new sea-floor crust was formed around the rift in the midocean ridge, it magnetized differently, depending upon the polarity of the planet at that time. This supported the ...