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June 2, 2023

 A “History-Making” Deep-Sea Expedition Discovered Rich Array of Life at Three Hydrothermal Vents

Environment / 3 min. read

During a recent oceanic expedition, a team of international scientists found three previously undiscovered hydrothermal vent fields in the Mid-Atlantic Ridge via the Schmidt Ocean Institute’s new research vessel, Falkor (too). Per a press release from NOAA Ocean Exploration, this scientific expedition was the first since the 1980s to find vent fields in the ridge […]

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This high-temperature hydrothermal vent field was discovered during the expedition on Puy des Folles Seamount in the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, at approximately 2000 meters deep. Within hydrothermal vents, seawater chemically altered through water-rock interactions at high temperatures is expelled through geological formations called chimneys. These fluids can appear like hazy "smoke" and are enriched with certain chemical compounds that can provide sustenance for microbial growth in a process known as chemosynthesis. Many creatures at these sites - such as tube worms, mussels, or shrimps - usually have symbiotic relationships with chemosynthetic bacteria. The tallest black smokers chimney was about 20 meters high. Seen on Dive 491 - exploring the hydrothermal communities at Puy des Folles Seamount at the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.

Engineers Harvest Clean, Continuous Energy From Air: “It Opens All Kinds of Possibilities”

Science / 3 min. read

There’s electricity in the air over at the University of Massachusetts Amherst — both the literal and metaphorical varieties.  A team of engineers at the institution have discovered a method of successfully harvesting energy from air humidity in a predictable and continuous manner, and they say the technology can be scaled up and applied broadly.

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