The surge in electric vehicles has brought with it a growing pile of retired lithium-ion batteries that are difficult and costly to recycle. While these batteries still contain valuable metals like ...

Salt is all around us—inside our oceans, beneath our feet, on our roadways, in our food and as part of the products we use every day. But with global temperatures climbing, weather events becoming ...

The Dead Sea is an extraordinary natural laboratory, providing rare insights into the formation of large-scale salt formations known as salt giants. A recent study led by UC Santa Barbara’s Eckart ...