The article examines the origins of ocean salinity through processes like weathering, erosion, volcanic activity, and ...

Hydrothermal vents can be found around the world at the junctions of drifting tectonic plates. But there are many hydrothermal fields still to be discovered. During a 2022 expedition of the MARIA S.

Learn from John Hopkins scientists what happens when the building blocks of life evolve in extreme ocean worlds.

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At the Bay of Conception this process can be witnessed first hand. Hydrothermal vents are fissures that expel heated water and are evidence that the Earth's crust is being ripped apart.

We are exploring the role of hydrothermal vents in driving the evolution of novel adaptations in deep-sea animals, throughout the 500+ million year history of complex life on our planet. In many parts ...

Falkor (too), a research vessel operated by the Schmidt Ocean Institute in Palo Alto, California, sets sail on 3 March on a 40-day mission to uncover unknown hydrothermal vents and life forms ...

Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology now reveal how a bacterial parasite infects and reproduces ...

I am a postdoctoral researcher, working on a NERC-funded project which explores the colonisation of hydrothermal vents by animal life from both deep-time and present-day perspectives. This research ...