Practically all of the ocean floor remains a mystery to humans, but robotic floats may soon change that shortcoming. In a ...

Scientists have found a new way to detect subtle chemical signatures in seawater, revealing previously invisible details ...

A robotic float drifting through the oxygen-starved waters of the Eastern Tropical North Pacific has recorded a nearly ...

Earth may have won a cosmic chemistry lottery. Researchers found that during the planet’s earliest formation, oxygen had to be in an extremely narrow “Goldilocks zone” for two life-essential elements, ...

The Earth's deep interior may absorb more chemical oxygen than previously thought, revealing a new geological process ...

Trivalent titanium occurs only when the amount of oxygen available for chemical reactions is low. Thus, the abundance of ...