The vents create a stark, beautiful landscape—a rocky, steaming undersea wonderland. Instead of using sunlight, organisms near hydrothermal vents depend on chemosynthesis. This remarkable ...

The earliest cells harnessed energy through geochemical reactions, a process that LMU researchers have now successfully ...

SEATTLE, Washington (CNN) -- Hydrothermal vents discovered last December in ... in vent fluids provide nutrients to single-cell organisms, called thermophiles, which do not need sunlight to ...

Explorers know that the Earth’s oceans are vast, covering about 71% of the surface of the globe. According to a new study, ...

Led by the University of Delaware’s Andrew Wozniak, associate professor in the School of Marine Science and Policy, a team of ...

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.

Hydrothermal vents, however, also occur in shallow coastal ... One of the predominant organisms at these hydrothermal systems is a microorganism called Campylobacteria. Its “secret weapon ...

In the summer of 2019, researchers from the Museum travelled to Iceland to study a hydrothermal vent. They found an array of animals living on the vent that might help us understand how life has ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

If there is a harsher place to live than a hydrothermal vent, it hasn't been found yet. Pitch darkness, poison gas, heavy metals, extreme acidity, enormous pressure, water at turns frigid and ...