Off the coast of East China, an ongoing research project which began in 2022 on the Zhoushan Islands in Zhejiang province ...
Salt is an essential nutrient for the human body. But hundreds of millions of years before the first humans, salt minerals once shaped entire landscapes. They even determined where early life on Earth ...
About 700 million years ago, Earth froze over so completely that even tropical oceans turned to ice, an episode scientists call Snowball Earth. New research now points to an overlooked accomplice in ...
Working from home may feel like a practice inextricably linked with the COVID-19 pandemic. But as it turns out, some ancient Maya salt makers were living and working in the same place, too. That’s the ...
The Dead Sea is an extraordinary natural laboratory, providing rare insights into the formation of large-scale salt formations known as salt giants. A recent study led by UC Santa Barbara’s Eckart ...
Salt is an essential nutrient for the human body. But hundreds of millions of years before the first humans, salt minerals once shaped entire landscapes. They even determined where early life on Earth ...