When 20 stone tools were found at a Maya salt production site in the lowlands of Belize, researchers assumed they had been used to cut wood. But microscopic analysis revealed that the instruments had ...

Working from home may feel like a practice inextricably linked with the COVID-19 pandemic. But as it turns out, some ancient Maya salt makers were living and working in the same place, too. That’s the ...

The Salt Queen was more a ship than a private yacht, and she was hosting a New Year’s Eve party for the most elite subjects ...

A huge solar power station in China is generating clean energy, producing salt from sunlight, and serving as a shrimp-breeding site. State-owned China Huadian Corporation said the 1-gigawatt (GW) ...

Stone Age Britons extracted salt from seawater using industrial-style processes more than 5500 years ago. The discovery means people in Great Britain were producing salt thousands of years earlier ...

* Any views expressed in this article are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation. Using a new method for extracting salt that relies on the sun and wind, small-scale farmers in ...

Kikkoman has been granted a patent for a method of producing a salt-free or low-salt soy sauce-like liquid seasoning. The method involves inoculating raw material grains with a koji mold, adding ...