Emma is a freshman studying Mechanical Engineering. She can be reached at Emma_S.Thomas@tufts.edu
As the Student Activity Fee surplus from the COVID-19 pandemic begins to run out, clubs at Tufts are turning to other sources of funding beyond the Tufts Community Union Senate to fill gaps in their budgets.
For centuries, it was believed that the production of oxygen relied on one component: photosynthesis (the conversion of light energy into chemical energy). Plants and algae use sunlight to convert carbon dioxide into oxygen, providing the foundation of life on earth as we know it. However, the discovery of ‘dark oxygen’—produced in environments with little to no sunlight— challenges this assumption, proving that oxygen production is not actually limited to photosynthesis.
