Did life begin in sea metals?

We all know how plants generate oxygen from light water and CO2 but scientists have now found that metal nodules on the ocean floor are producing oxygen in pitchblack darkness with zero help from living organisms This mindblowing discovery published in Nature Geoscience could potentially flip our understanding of lifersquos originsldquoWhere could aerobic life that requires oxygen have begunrdquo wonders Andrew Sweetman the studyrsquos lead author and a professor of Seafloor Ecology at the Scottish Association for Marine Science SAMS in Oban UK The marine scientists stumbled upon this lsquodark oxygenrsquo phenomenon by sheer accident while exploring the seabed over 13000 feet down between Mexico and Hawaii They were there to study the effects of mining metal nuggets such as cobalt nickel and rare earth metals essential for electronic gadgetsPICNYPOSTTheir sensors picked up unexpected oxygen emissions from the deep sea which seemed impossible due to the obvious lack of elements required to produce the gas Thinking their gear had gone haywire Sweetman sent the sensors back to the manufacturer who confirmed they were indeed working perfectly After further experiments he concluded that these metal nodules are splitting water into oxygen and hydrogen via electric chargeSweetman further points out ldquoFor aerobic life to begin on the planet there has to be oxygen and our understanding has been that Earthrsquos oxygen supply began with photosynthetic organisms But we now know that there is oxygen produced in the deep sea where there is no lightrdquoParking spot jackpotA 3000yearold Biblical trench found under parking lot in IsraelPICNYPOSTMove over parking spacesmdashtherersquos a 3500squarefoot ancient trench stealing the spotlight Archaeologists in Israel have uncovered a Biblical site beneath a parking lot in Jerusalemrsquos City of David that might be over 3000 years old For 150 years historians were puzzled by this wide trench initially mistaken for a natural depression back in the 1960sNow it turns out to be a monumental structure that once protected the kings of Jerusalem Amusingly this moat a deep wide ditch designed to surround and defend ancient castles was discovered on a site that until about 15 years ago served as a parking area for visitors to the Western or Wailing Wall of JerusalemDeadly yet deliciousPICODDITYCENTRALKoi Pla a traditional dish of Thailand and Laos consists of raw fish herbs lemon juice and the ability to kill 20000 locals yearly The problematic ingredient is the raw fish which can become worminfested leading to Cholangiocarcinoma a type of bile duct cancer in humansA lsquoclearrsquo debaclePICODDITYCENTRALAfter suffering from severe pain and discomfort on the right side of his body for nine years a 53yearold finally decided to seek medical help In the CT scan surgeons were showed a 9cm glass shard in a capsule of his connective tissue It was the size of two credit cardsConversational chimpsNew study discovered chimpanzees use rapid fire gestures in the same manner that humans do After analysing 8500 gestures in five different areas of East Africa researchers found 14 percent of chimp communication involved gesturing between two individuals Perhaps one day wersquod be able to talk with our chimp friends tooA killer prom entrancePICNYPOSTA UK teen made a dramatic entrance at his high school prom by arriving in a body bag ensuring his grand entrance was anything but ordinary The 11th grader and his friends staged a stunt with three body bags and all blackclad men to carry them out Safe to say the boys turned heads as they were unloaded from a van outside the venueMiss Kitty not a catFans around the globe are stunned to learn that their beloved character Hello Kitty is not a cat after all ldquoHello Kitty is not a catrdquo Jill Koch Senior Vice President of Marketing and Brand Management at Sanrio the company that created the character revealed Instead shersquos a little girl about three apples tall who even has her own pet cat named Charmmy Kitty Anthropologist and author Christine R Yano added ldquoShersquos never shown on all fours she walks and sits like a twolegged creature She is a friend but she is not a catrdquo So remember no matter who appearances can be deceiving