All good research breaks new ground, but rarely does the research unearth truths that challenge the foundation of a science. That's what chemists have now done. Scientists have compressed sodium ...

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 ...

In the field of exotic new materials, we've examined one of the strongest ones and another declared to be impossible; scientists now report creating "forbidden" materials out of ordinary table salt ...

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.

Salt is an ionic compound that results from the neutralization reaction of an acid and a base.It is composed of related numbers of cations (positively charged ions) and anions (negative ions) so that ...

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 ...

BERLIN — The purchase of up to 2,000 tons of a special salt compound to de-ice roads in winter was approved Tuesday by the town council, a sure sign that cold weather is coming. The per ton price is ...