Many people in the U.S. are trying to lower their sodium intake for better heart health. The WHO and dietitians say using ...

A new analysis of samples from the asteroid Bennu, NASA’s first asteroid sample captured in space and delivered to Earth, ...

As such sodium is found naturally only in compounds and never as the free element. Even so it is highly abundant, accounting for around 2.6 per cent of the earths crust by weight. Its most common ...

Scientists have discovered a unique sequence of minerals that formed from evaporated water in samples from Bennu.

The asteroid Bennu has provided groundbreaking insights into the chemistry that may have set the stage for life in the early ...

The prescription pills, sold under the brand name Journavx and made by Vertex Pharmaceuticals, are taken twice a day and ...

The competition between these two bonding types, influenced by pressure, determines the peculiar structures of the newly discovered compounds. In addition to explaining the stability of sodium ...

The museum team was especially surprised to find traces of water-bearing sodium carbonate compounds, commonly known as soda ash, in the Bennu sample. These chemicals have never been found in ...

When Tim McCoy, curator of meteorites at the National Museum of Natural History, and his team began analyzing the minerals in the Bennu sample, they found something unexpected: sodium carbonate. “I ...

A little water helps expose the sodium so it can react with the chlorine gas. The reaction releases a lot of heat as the ionic compound sodium chloride is formed. A sodium and chlorine atom are near ...