Kidney stones, a common and painful condition, are influenced significantly by diet. Certain foods like spinach, nuts, and ...

If you don't drink enough water, it's your kidneys — the natural filtering system for the body — that pay a heavy price.

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Two zircon crystals showed isotopic evidence of meteoric or fresh water; one was 4 billion years old, while the other was 3.4 billion years old, he said.

Creating rose petal sugar crystals is a beautiful way to combine the beauty of roses with the sweetness of sugar ...

Salt creeping, a phenomenon that occurs in both natural and industrial processes, describes the collection and migration of ...

Long thought to be completely disordered, space ice appears to have some crystallized regions, new research suggests.

A new study of ancient detrital zircons from inland Australia has found the first evidence that the Earth has had fresh water and dry land four billion years ago, much longer than previously ...

Low-density amorphous ice was discovered in the 1930s by condensing water vapor onto a metal plate cooled to –166 degrees Fahrenheit (–110 degrees Celsius). High-density amorphous ice was ...

This finding, the authors said, means the recipe for the origins of life existed less than 600 million years after Earth’s formation, long before the dinosaurs or even the earliest known microbial ...