Ancient sea salt has been used for centuries as a healing, purifying, and energizing mineral—and today, it’s experiencing a wellness revival. Unlike processed table salt, ancient sea salt is rich in ...

More than a billion years ago, a shallow basin in what is now northern Ontario held a subtropical lake. The setting likely resembled modern Death Valley, where heat drives evaporation and leaves salt ...

Salt crystals from Central Australia hold ancient microorganisms that became trapped 830 million years ago, new research finds. And there's a chance that some of the microorganisms might still be ...

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 ...

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 ...

And then there was the (2008) earthquake.”Her hope is she can continue to acquire the salt, because it’s so different from the salt we use now.Regular salt, evaporated from our current oceans, ...