"The spontaneous formation of ion channels discovered in deep sea hydrothermal vents has direct implications for the origin of life on Earth and beyond," says biochemist Ryuhei Nakamura ...

1942) and a team of oceanographers and marine geochemists and geologists, took the deep ... the vents, and in some places, had accumulated so high as to look like chimneys on the sea floor ...

By being resident on-site at the vent, InVADER will capture transient events and provide unprecedented spatial and temporal access to a deep ocean hydrothermal system. This data will determine ...

New Delhi: India's Deep Sea Mission is on the right track, and the discovery of an active hydrothermal vent 4,500 metres below the surface of the Indian Ocean this month will boost scientists ...