Salt is one of the most abundant chemical compounds on Earth. We use it to season our food, clean our sinks, and melt snow from our Michigan roads in winter. For the City of Midland, salt – chemically ...

Black salt and rock salt both have their health benefits. Here is why we need them and find out which one is better for you.

Chinen salt is an herbal supplement that’s used in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) to treat type 2 diabetes. Although it contains compounds that are chemically considered salts, it’s used as a ...

Scientists at Harvard have discovered how salts like lithium bromide break down tough proteins such as keratin—not by attacking the proteins directly, but by altering the surrounding water structure.

image: Researchers at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign led a study that used machine learning to perform accelerated simulations ...

A familiar ingredient has been hiding in plain sight on the surface of Jupiter’s moon Europa. Using a visible light spectral analysis, planetary scientists at Caltech and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory ...

NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has detected a salt found on Earth on the surface of Mars. The salt, called perchlorate, is used in fireworks and rocket fuel. The news follows the recent confirmation of ...