Scientists analyzed halite samples from 830 million years ago using optical techniques. Inside the samples, they found microorganisms such as bacteria, algae and fungi that may still be alive. NASA ...

More than a billion years ago, a shallow basin in what is now northern Ontario held a subtropical lake. The setting likely ...

Work will begin early next year on the £660 million gas storage project which will turn rural Wyre one of the UK's major powerhouses by the 2020s. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to ...

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

Primary fluid inclusions in bedded halite from the 830-million-year-old Browne Formation of central Australia contain organic solids and liquids, as documented with transmitted light and UV-vis ...

Norm Cook, the president and chief marketing officer of Halite Partners, has left the registered investment advisory firm to lead another RIA headquartered right down the street. The industry veteran ...

Through the analyses of gases and fluids preserved within salt crystals, the team extended the direct record of Earth’s ...

Evaporite deposits, usually halite ‘rock salt’ (NaCl), represent the desiccated remains of ancient seas or saline lakes. Accounts stretching back over almost a century suggest that microorganisms may ...

Researchers have discovered meter-high chimneys on the floor of the Dead Sea. These are formed by the spontaneous crystallization of minerals from groundwater with an extremely high salt content ...

Trapped gases in 1.4 billion-year-old salt crystals reveal ancient secrets about oxygen and carbon dioxide levels on early ...