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Goodbye to the idea that only plants produce oxygen—scientists reveal a process in the deep ocean that defies NASA without photosynthesis

Did you know that the deep ocean can produce oxygen without the need of solar light nor photosynthesis? According to a study ...

It’s not photosynthesis: The deep ocean is creating oxygen on its own

Researchers have discovered evidence of oxygen production in the deep Pacific Ocean, independent of sunlight and living ...
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Humans just manufactured breathable oxygen on Mars for the first time

NASA’s Perseverance rover produced breathable oxygen on Mars on April 20, 2021, marking the first time humans manufactured a ...
THE WEEK

Production of 'dark' oxygen deep in the ocean comes to light

A new study published in the journal Nature Geoscience found evidence of oxygen production near polymetallic nodules located deep in the ocean. Called dark oxygen, this oxygen is being produced ...
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Ancient microbes may have used oxygen 500 million years before it filled Earth’s atmosphere

Life on Earth may have learned to breathe oxygen long before oxygen filled the skies. MIT researchers traced a key ...
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Light unrequired: The discovery of dark oxygen

For centuries, it was believed that the production of oxygen relied on one component: photosynthesis (the conversion of light ...
BioTechniques

Some organisms used oxygen hundreds of millions of years before it was abundant

Aerobic respiration began hundreds of millions of years earlier than previously thought, a new study suggests.