Lawrence Alma-Tadema, A Reading From Homer, 1885. Philadelphia Museum of Art Source: Wikimedia Commons Anyone who’s visited the Greek islands recalls a luminous world suspended between blue sky and ...

Could lumpy metallic rocks in the deepest, darkest reaches of the ocean be making oxygen in the absence of sunlight? Some scientists think so, but others have challenged the claim that so-called "dark ...

Marine scientists who made headlines last year with their discovery that deep sea nodules could be producing “dark oxygen” are embarking on a three-year research project to explain their findings.

Considering how cinematic the creatures can be under the right circumstances, it’s a shame that shark movies are so frequently not worth their salt. There are exceptions. Jaws was the genesis of the ...

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The deep sea, the planet’s most expansive and least understood ecosystem, remains largely unexplored. Yet while the deep sea may seem a dark and distant space, events underwater directly impact our ...