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 ...

Rock salt is a chemical sedimentary rock that forms through the evaporation of water, as minerals dissolve and settle down. When excavated directly from the earth, it maintains a cube-shaped ...

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 ...