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Deep Life Not Limited to Microbes: Earthquakes Move Surface Animals to the Deep

In 2009, researchers discovered a tiny nematode living happily in the water inside rock fractures,…

Scientists have proposed that the majority of microbes on Earth live in the vast, dark subsurface,…

These deep mines have been a boon to scientists as well. The mining companies drill boreholes into…

A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by a team of…

However, some places on Earth have not felt the sun’s influence for millions, or even billions, of…

Iron ore mining began at Soudan in 1882 as an open pit and proceeded underground near the turn of…

Studies of Earth’s deep biosphere tend to focus on microbial life, primarily prokaryotic single-…

A team of scientists, led by the University of Toronto’s Barbara Sherwood Lollar (DCO Deep Energy…

Dissolved H2 concentrations up to the mM range and H2 levels up to 9 to 58% by volume in the free…

In the Witwatersrand Basin of South Africa, boreholes originally drilled to explore for diamonds…