While McDonald's Sprite trends on Twitter yet again, a franchise owner and a sensory scientist explain why the lemon-lime soda seems to hit differently.

The low-carbon transition needs batteries. And those need lithium. Fortunately, the metal is abundant, and science is getting better at finding, extracting and processing it.

This is your run-of-the-mill, everyday type of salt. The type you’d find on the table alongside the pepper shaker—hence why it’s called table salt. It’s granulated, and typically made by mining ...

The salt used on the road is often the same salt that people have at the dinner table, said Smit: sodium chloride. Salt helps to lower water's freezing temperature, meaning that it prevents ice ...

Season with salt and pepper. Salt your cooking water. Season to taste. If you’ve ever encountered a written recipe, you’re probably somewhat familiar with these phrases. Salt is omnipresent in ...

House Republicans are trying to figure out what replaces the so-called SALT cap for residents of high-tax states such as New York, New Jersey and California who have seen a tax hit from the limit.

This is the final tax year for a cap on the federal government's State and Local Tax (SALT) deduction, which reduces your IRS income tax bill based on taxes you've already paid to state and local ...

A groundbreaking imaging method for tracking salt inside plant cells has rewritten knowledge of how roots handle toxic levels of sodium ions. The findings might aid efforts to boost plant ...

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It’s a rite of winter in the Chicago area on par with “dibs” and skating at Millennium Park, as residents pull out shovels and salt to deal with wintry weather. The Chicago area hasn’t ...