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Chinese scientists found a thriving ecosystem over six miles beneath the Pacific Ocean, with up to 4,300 tiny organisms.

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The current unilateral approach may secure minerals in the short term, but it will erode the Pacific partnerships and deterrence architecture the United States needs for long-term security. In April ...

The strange, shiny discovery, retrieved from the ocean near Alaska in 2023, turned out to be part of an anemone, scientists said. By John Yoon Explorers sent a robot two miles under the ocean’s ...

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A mystery nearly two and a half years in the making has finally been solved. Scientists have determined that the mysterious golden mass discovered more than 2 miles below the surface in the Gulf of ...