Scientists at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) have achieved a historic breakthrough in nuclear energy by launching ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — A famous grade school experiment involves adding salt to ice, resulting in the ice melting. But do you know the science behind that experiment? And how it relates to winter ...

The ice and salt experiment reveals how the addition of salt lowers water’s freezing point. As the salt dissolves, the ice melts more rapidly, pulling heat from its surroundings. This causes the ...

In salt water solutions, water molecules rapidly move around salt ions at a scale of more than a trillion times a second, according to both experiments and simulations. In salt water solutions, water ...

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. Brrr… it’s cold out there! Children are flocking to the television in hopes ...