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During DCO’s Carbon Mineral Challenge, launched in 2015, mineralogists identified 30 new carbon-containing minerals. More than 100 carbon minerals likely remain undiscovered, however, and more than…
A large contingent of DCO researchers will participate in Goldschmidt 2019 on 18–23 August 2019 in Barcelona, Spain.
Wikipedia contains 1.5 million citations and drives more traffic to online scholarly articles than all but five other websites. By getting involved as a Wikipedia editor, deep carbon scientists can…
Stories are powerful. Whether hilarious or heartbreaking, subversive or soothing, they reflect who we are and what matters to us.
AGU 2019 Fall Meeting abstract submission deadline is 31 July 2019, 11:59 P.M. EDT.
Highly efficient archaea, called Thaumarchaea, out-survive bacteria in the energy-poor, oxygen-containing sediments beneath the deep sea. These Thaumarchaea consume bits of proteins from dead cells…
Just in time for the “Year of Carbon,” DCO Executive Director Robert Hazen has published a sweeping history of carbon: Symphony in C: Carbon and the Evolution of (Almost) Everything.
Sediments from erosion reduce the friction when one tectonic plate sinks beneath another into the mantle. This also may be true in Earth’s past, and a new hypothesis proposes that sediments helped…
Microbiologist Karen Lloyd takes us on a trip to the volcanoes and hot springs of Costa Rica, shining a light on subterranean organisms and how they could have a profound impact on life at Earth's…
The Evolution of Nanomachines in Geospheres and Microbial Ancestors (ENIGMA) project has received a $6 million grant from the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to investigate…
Could a new classification system that accounts for minerals’ distinct journeys help us better understand mineralogy as a process of universal and planetary evolution?