Far below the reach of sunlight, at roughly 4,000 m deep on the Pacific seafloor, researchers have stumbled on a form of oxygen that should not exist there at all. The finding, quickly dubbed “dark ...

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You are taught early in science that oxygen on Earth comes from sunlight. Plants, algae, and cyanobacteria use light to split water and release oxygen, shaping the atmosphere and making complex life ...

‘What oxygen is to the lungs, such is the hope to the meaning of life.’ This is what Emil Brunner, a Swiss theologian, once ...