“We investigated the site, which is between two and five meters under water, and found that it is actually a natural ... is typical of mineralization at hydrocarbon seeps—seen both in modern seafloor ...

Seemingly unaware of the film Deep Blue Sea and countless B-movie tropes, China is set to build a new deep-sea laboratory that will be crewed by a team of resident scientists. In a recent announcement ...

This lab - a hybrid of crewed and unmanned technologies - is capable of using advanced underwater sensors to "capture" critical scientific phenomena at cold seeps sites. It can also conduct real ...

The research facility of cold-seep ecosystem, a megaproject whose launch was recently announced in South China's Guangdong Province, aims to deepen humanity's understanding of deep-sea science by ...