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Amorphous Ice is an Experimental Side Effect of an Interrupted Crystal Transition

Microbes in the deep biosphere exist at pressures that would crush most surface organisms. At one…

Deep, dark ocean waters represent the largest marine environment on Earth. Studying how microbes…

A new open-access special issue on Deep Matter and Energy contains sixteen papers that span all…

Virtually all the ice that we encounter on Earth’s surface, from snowflakes to ice cubes, has a…

Courtesy of SpringerA new book, edited by DCO Extreme Physics and Chemistry Community member Nir…

When generations of phytoplankton with calcium carbonate shells die, their shells accumulate on the…

Subduction zones, where the edge of one tectonic plate slips beneath another, have earned the…

On the surface, carbon dioxide moves in complex cycles between living organisms and the physical…

Just off the coast of the continents, thousands of mud volcanoes are erupting from the seafloor,…

Pyroxenites are a type of rock created when parts of Earth’s crust are injected deep in the mantle…