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The Deepest Gas Hydrate Cold Seep Ever Discovered In The Arctic

by Keith Cowing

A multinational scientific team led by UiT has uncovered the deepest known gas hydrate cold seep on the planet. The discovery was made during the Ocean Census Arctic Deep – EXTREME24 expedition […]

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HKUST Launches World’s First Deep-sea Multi-omics Resource Platform Empowering Global Research Into Biological Adaptation In Extreme Environments

by Keith Cowing

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), in collaboration with the Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Guangzhou), has launched the world’s first Deep Ocean Omics (DOO) […]

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Subsurface Life On Earth As A Key To Unlock Extraterrestrial Mysteries

by Keith Cowing

The first forms of life on Earth were microbial, preceding the evolution of multicellular life by more than two billion years.

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Caves On Earth As Proxies For Martian Subsurface Environments

by Keith Cowing

On planet Earth, the inner part of cave systems represents an extreme and isolated environment, characterized by relatively stable microclimatic conditions, nutrient limitation and protection from external stressors such as […]

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Small Aquatic Systems Found To Fix 15% Of Earth’s Nitrogen

by Keith Cowing

Nitrogen is vital for all known life. Yet most nitrogen on Earth is in the atmosphere as di-nitrogen gas, which many organisms can’t use. Fortunately, there are microbes that can […]

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The Microbiology and Geochemistry of The Shallow-water Hydrothermal Vents of the Gulf of Naples, Italy

by Keith Cowing

Shallow-water hydrothermal vents are dynamic ecosystems that occur below 200 m in tectonically active regions of the planet.

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Discovery Links Microbial Colonization To An Ancient Meteorite Crater

by Keith Cowing

In a scientific breakthrough with cosmic implications, researchers have, for the first time, precisely dated the emergence of microbial life within a meteorite impact crater—revealing that life not only survives […]

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Rare Deep-Sea Hydrothermal System Discovered In The Western Pacific Producing Massive Hydrogen Emissions

by Keith Cowing

Hydrogen-producing hydrothermal systems in the deep ocean are rare but critical to understanding Earth’s internal processes and the conditions that may have fostered life’s origins.

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Basecamp Research Announces Breakthrough Discovery of Over One Million New Species

by Keith Cowing

Yielding Enormous New Database Purpose-Built for Generative Foundation Models in Biology Basecamp Research, an AI company dedicated to using nature to solve the most pressing challenges in the life sciences, […]

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