More than a billion years ago, in a shallow basin across what is now northern Ontario, a subtropical lake much like ...

What is shelf life on a breath of air? Well, it just so happens that back in northern Ontario, it’s 1.4 billion years.

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Scientifically speaking, the term “crystal” refers to any solid that has an ordered chemical structure. This means that its parts are arranged in a precisely ordered pattern, like bricks in a wall.

Recent visitors to Robert Smithson’s “Spiral Jetty” (1970), which has re-emerged for the moment from beneath the surface of the Great Salt Lake, have found it clad in a glistening white armor of salt ...

The regular refrain here when it comes to announcements of new battery chemistries hailed as potentially miraculous is that if we had a pound, dollar, or Euro for each one we’ve heard, by now we’d be ...

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When snow is in the forecast, roads are often pre-treated with a layer of salt to prevent the formation of ice.

After any winter weather event, many drivers may be wondering how to remove the brine from their vehicles that was sprayed to help keep area roads from icing over. Brine is a mixture of salt and water ...

More than a billion years ago, in a shallow basin across what is now northern Ontario, a subtropical lake much like ...