Photographers flock to Death Valley's otherworldly landscape during sunrise and sunset, and these are the best places to see ...

“I’ve been on a search and rescue in the Fiery Furnace,” Henker said. “It was a twisted ankle — it still took five hours and 10 people.” Henker emphasized that the closure is temporary.

Today, this area is known as the Anacleto Formation in northern Patagonia in Argentina and consists of a massive salt flat. It’s also the site of a new prehistoric species discovery. A group of ...

Peine sits on the edge of the nearly 1,200-square-mile Atacama Salt Flat, or Salar de Atacama. Sitting beneath its surface, dissolved in underground saline waters called brine, is one of the ...

While most experts recommend cutting down on salt, some detractors question whether most people really need to be making their meals blander. We have a complicated relationship with salt.

We may earn an affiliate commission from links. We take it for granted, but salt is one of the most important minerals in the world. Throughout history, it’s played an integral role in human ...

If you would like to learn more about the IAEA’s work, sign up for our weekly updates containing our most important news, multimedia and more. Molten Salt Reactors (MSRs) are nuclear fission reactors ...

A team of paleontologists found a new long-necked dinosaur species near a large salt flat in Argentina. Chadititan calvoi, or “titan of the salt” is estimated to have been about 22 feet-long ...