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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...