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Dark oxygen could rewrite Earth’s history

2024/9/11
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Alicia Smith, a deep-sea ecologist, recounts her experience discovering dark oxygen during a research project. While deploying equipment to study the seafloor, she noticed oxygen levels increasing in a closed environment, contrary to expectations. After ruling out various equipment errors, the team realized they might have stumbled upon a significant discovery.
  • Oxygen levels increased in a closed environment at the seafloor.
  • Initial suspicions of equipment malfunction were ruled out.
  • The discovery was made during a deep-sea research project.

Shownotes Transcript

Scientists just discovered oxygen being produced without sunlight — without photosynthesis — at the bottom of the ocean. This “dark oxygen” could fundamentally change the story we tell of life on Earth and in the rest of the universe.

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