This 830-million-year-old crystal might contain life. And we're about to open it From lemons to ham, salt is a handy food preservative. But researchers studying some really old salt crystals found ...

Flake salt is produced when salt water is heated, allowing the water to evaporate and leaving behind larger crystals than you find in typical rock salt. Some varieties, like the French fleur de sel, ...

Produced since 1886 in St. Clair, Michigan, Diamond Crystal Kosher Salt is made by evaporating brine in open pans. ... Leftover Pickle Brine Is Liquid Gold — Here’s How to Use It, ...

Scientists have discovered salt crystals in samples from asteroid Itokawa, collected by Hayabusa in 2010. The space rock is an S-type asteroid, which as a class has been considered quite dry, with ...

In liquid crystals, molecules automatically arrange themselves in an ordered fashion. Researchers have discovered a method that allows an anti-ordered state, which will enable novel material ...

Surfaces in contact with salty water usually end up with a corrosive layer of salt caked on. Now, engineers at MIT have made these minerals so easy to remove that they often just fall off on their ...

Traditional liquid crystals, however, don’t display those kinds of complex structures. The most common liquid crystals, for example, are made up of tiny rod-shaped molecules. Under the microscope, ...

The end result was a nematic liquid crystal fluid with symmetry that looks a lot like that of a solid monoclinic crystal. The molecules inside displayed some symmetry, but only one mirror plane ...

Liquid crystal molecules flow like a liquid, but they have a common orientation like in solids, and this orientation can change in response to stimuli. They are useful in LCD screens, biomedical ...