Salt crystals can be created by slowly evaporating saturated salt water. It seems very simple and easy when you hear about it, but in order to create crystals with high transparency, it is necessary ...

From lemons to ham, salt is a handy food preservative. But researchers studying some really old salt crystals found them preserving something else — evidence of life. "There are little cubes of the ...

Scientists have used a mix of physical and chemical properties to bend salt into hexagonal crystals for the first time ever. They formed the thin layer of crystalline salt on a substrate (foundation ...