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More than 28,000 scientists gathered in the US capital for the 2018 AGU Fall Meeting. As in past years, deep carbon science featured prominently throughout the conference, with DCO researchers…
For the first time, scientists have drilled deep into the Deccan Traps, a giant, 65-million-year-old lava flow in Western India, and the 2.5 billion-year-old rock beneath. DCO scientists from Indian…
EarthByte researchers combined their model of plate tectonics with records of carbonate layers logged from cores collected during scientific ocean drilling expeditions. Together, these resources…
In the carbon-rich sediments of the Baltic Sea, microbes use a variety of strategies to make a living from different types of organic material that have settled there, including making and consuming…
A new study uses computer simulations and spectroscopic techniques to look at how water molecules interact with the mantle mineral olivine.
Researchers compiled hundreds of studies of the types and numbers of microbes living in the terrestrial subsurface and carefully scaled the results to come up with estimates of the total number and…
Barely living "zombie" bacteria and other forms of life constitute an immense amount of carbon deep within Earth's subsurface—245 to 385 times greater than the carbon mass of all humans on the…
DCO has selected two early career scientists as recipients of the 2018 Emerging Leader Awards.
On 30 October 2018 the new International Center for Deep Life Investigation held its inaugural symposium at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, followed by the Deep Life Community's final all hands…
A new analysis of ancient rocks that once lay on the floor of the Tethys Sea finds clusters of organic compounds associated with minerals from serpentinites. Thermodynamic calculations had predicted…
The Synthesizing Science Series: Scientists share stories about how they are pushing boundaries as they unlock the mysteries of deep Earth.