Visitors often ask, “Why does the Dead Sea let you float?” The answer is simple. It’s because of the unique mix of density, mineral concentration, and buoyancy. This makes t ...

There’s a lake on the Canadian prairies where the water is so salty that it makes you buoyant, and it’s been referred to as ...

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 ...

For her project titled Salt Bride, Israeli artist Sigalit Landau decided to submerge a black gown in the Dead Sea. The gown spent 2 months in the salt-rich waters in 2014, and as you can see from ...

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, ...