It's not unusual to find rust around salt water, but now the pairing might actually be useful. Researchers at Caltech and Northwestern University have found that electricity can be produced when salt ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Winter road crews save your life and slowly kill your car. The same salt that keeps a mountain pass open will chew into brake ...

ELMIRA HEIGHTS, N.Y. (WETM) — When it snows, salt gets put down on the roads to melt the ice. Mechanics said if people don’t keep up with their cars during the winter months, it could cost them ...

When snow starts to fall in Idaho Falls, the city’s Street Division has already been active for hours, laying down salt brine. The city uses a 50-50, sodium chloride/sand mixture on select city roads ...

Your survived Delaware's blizzard and now it's time to go back to work, drive your children or get groceries. When you take your car out, snow, ice, salt, sand and various chemicals spread on the road ...

I have driven the streets in Chittenden County through a dozen-plus winters but something has changed that has got my attention. I have noticed last winter that getting the car cleaned of salt at the ...

Your car hates winter. Not because of the cold, the snow, the traffic or the constant digging and shoveling; that’s why you hate winter. No, your car hates winter because of all that damn road salt ...

Winter weather brings one of the trucking industry’s greatest simultaneous friends and foes: road salt. Salt prevents and melts ice, making road surfaces safer for travel, but it also significantly ...