As the demand for electric car batteries and smartphones grows, mining companies are turning their attention to the deep sea, where precious ... transfer through the food chain.

The rTCA (reductive tricarboxylic acid) cycle provides microbes with a special mechanism to create energy and food in conditions ... their power passes into the chain of living organisms that ...

Imagine a world where sunlight never touches the ocean floor, where bizarre creatures drift through inky black waters, and ...

On April 14, just before midnight, the 882-foot ship struck an iceberg, sparking a chain ... sea 380 miles southeast of the coast of Newfoundland, Canada, according to National Geographic ...

Fast-moving underwater avalanches, known as turbidity currents, are responsible for transporting vast quantities of microplastics into the deep sea ... the entire food chain.” The research focused on ...

The microbes are themselves eaten by other organisms, which are in turn eaten by other organisms, and so on, sustaining a whole deep-sea food chain dependent on hydrothermal vents. In 2016 ...