{"id":208926,"date":"2025-03-17T12:26:39","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T17:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/dark-oxygen-a-deep-sea-discovery-that-has-split-scientists"},"modified":"2025-03-17T12:26:39","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T17:26:39","slug":"dark-oxygen-a-deep-sea-discovery-that-has-split-scientists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/dark-oxygen-a-deep-sea-discovery-that-has-split-scientists","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Dark oxygen\u2019: a deep-sea discovery that has split scientists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/dark-oxygen-a-deep-sea-discovery-that-has-split-scientists2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Could lumpy metallic rocks in the deepest, darkest reaches of the ocean be making oxygen in the absence of sunlight?<\/p>\n<p>Some scientists think so, but others have challenged the claim that so-called \u201cdark oxygen\u201d is being produced in the lightless abyss of the seabed.<\/p>\n<p>The discovery\u2014detailed last July in the journal <i>Nature Geoscience <\/i>\u2014called into question long-held assumptions about the origins of life on Earth, and sparked intense scientific debate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Could lumpy metallic rocks in the deepest, darkest reaches of the ocean be making oxygen in the absence of sunlight? Some scientists think so, but others have challenged the claim that so-called \u201cdark oxygen\u201d is being produced in the lightless abyss of the seabed. The discovery\u2014detailed last July in the journal Nature Geoscience \u2014called into [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}