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Scientists analyzed halite samples from 830 million years ago using optical techniques. Inside the samples, they found microorganisms such as bacteria, algae and fungi that may still be alive. NASA ...

Evaporite deposits, usually halite ‘rock salt’ (NaCl), represent the desiccated remains of ancient seas or saline lakes. Accounts stretching back over almost a century suggest that microorganisms may ...

As rock salt — or “halite”, as mineralogists call it — crystallises out of saline waters, it can entrap tiny amounts of the parent waters as a so-called fluid inclusion. And if the originating waters ...

Scientists have observed 'salt snow' falling in the Dead Sea, a phenomenon where halite crystals precipitate underwater, forming vast salt structures. Triggered by climate change, evaporation, and ...

Researchers have unearthed the planet’s oldest-known intact biological macromolecules, microscopic bits of cellulose from 253-million-year-old salt deposits in the southwestern United States. The ...