With 30 minutes left in her submersible dive, geochemist Mengran Du steered toward one last stretch of the deep trenches between Russia and Alaska — and found life where almost no one expected it. Published in 2025, the discovery revealed a 2,500-kilometr

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Scientists piloting a submersible in the southeastern Indian Ocean discovered one of the largest and deepest whale graveyards ever found, sp

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China has launched the Meng Xiang drilling vessel, a 42,600-ton scientific platform designed to break the world record for deepest ocean dri

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Emerson Long, a geology and physics double major at Syracuse University, conducted research as an intern at the U.S. Geological Survey, recr