Do you want to float on water? Take a trip to the Dead Sea or the Great Salt Lake. Because both bodies of water contain huge amounts of salt, swimmers can easily float! Compare the densities of ...

The vast majority—97 percent—of the earth’s water is salt water found in our oceans. Another two percent is stored in ice caps or glaciers. That leaves just one percent of all water on earth for ...

“Corkran’s systematic evaluations revealed two new processes,” says Boutt, professor of Earth, geographic, and climate sciences at UMass Amherst and the paper’s senior author. AMHERST, Mass. — One of ...

Growing electrification of marine propulsion systems implies a need to deliver denser circuits and more complex circuits ...

A new environmental report finds that rising salt levels in New York City’s water supply could make some of it undrinkable by the turn of the century. By Hilary Howard Road salt is leaching into the ...