The Dead Sea has no life in it but strange chimney-like structures on the lake floor has been tied to a life-threatening ...

There’s no cure for eczema, but some products have been shown to ease symptoms. One example is Dead Sea salt, which may treat symptoms like itching and inflammation. Eczema is a common skin ...

A few years ago Ricardo Braz was scrolling through Instagram when he spotted a picture of a tiny island made of salt in the Dead Sea. He added it to his bucket list. In December the 24-year-old ...

It’s been said that a sermon should be judged by its impact beyond the moment when it’s preached. In the last month, the bishop’s sermon at the National Cathedral has been making a difference. New ...

the Dead Sea, for instance, had a specific gravity of 1211 ; 1000 parts of sea water contained from 22 to 28 parts of muriate of soda, and from 8 to 13 parts of other salts, which were chiefly ...

Isolated bodies of water can also become extra salty, or hypersaline, through evaporation. The Dead Sea in the Middle East is an example of this. The high salt content increases the water's density, ...

The increasingly exposed shoreline and the sinkholes, caused by a flow of freshwater dissolving layers of salt beneath the Earth's surface, are not new. In fact, the Dead Sea, nestled where Israeli, ...

Death rates were also lower in the group that ... is to make sure that their blood pressure is within that normal range.” Table and sea salts contain about 40% sodium. Salt substitutes replace ...

While salts have been known to mitigate its effect, researchers have said that the Dead Sea in particular is effective in soothing eczema. Eczema is a common skin condition that causes red or ...