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The honeycomb patterns which are often found in salt deserts in Death Valley, US, and Bolivia, among other places, look like something from another world. Researchers can now explain the origin of the ...

Scientists have solved the riddle of the mysterious honeycomb patterns found in salt deserts across the world. These places are among some of the most extreme and inhospitable on Earth, and their odd ...

From Death Valley to Chile to Iran, similarly sized polygons of salt form in playas all over the world — and subterranean fluid flows might be the key to solving the long-standing puzzle of why.