Snow has returned to the Philadelphia region, and along with it the white residues on streets and sidewalks that result from the over-application of deicers such as sodium chloride, or rock salt, as ...

The lab-created compounds — never seen before — might exist naturally on icy moons in the outer solar system. By Kenneth Chang Scientists have discovered two new forms of salty ice that probably do ...

With a dash of table salt, scientists have created exotic compounds that bend the basic rules of chemical bonds and matter in the universe, researchers report in the Dec. 20 Science. The team pulled ...