The Latest Breaking News from Sodium

If you’re heading out on a backpacking trip, should you stock up on instant mashed potatoes, or will they just take up room in your backpack?

Drinking too much water in a short amount of time can be fatal.

Too much saturated fat, sugar, and sodium is linked to heart disease.

‘Even walking to the bathroom was so much energy to exert,’ she says of her symptoms

Fifteen questions on general knowledge and topical trivia, plus a few jokes, every Thursday. How will you fare?

Tiny salt grains discovered in samples returned by the Hayabusa mission could indicate that the largest population of space rocks in the solar system is more watery than previously thought.

Scientists at the Raman Research Institute (RRI) have indigenously built an experimental facility to simultaneously cool and trap a large number of sodium and potassium atoms near absolute zero temperatures using laser light and magnetic fields.

Astronomers have confirmed the presence of phosphates — a crucial ingredient for life — in a plume of icy water gushing out of Saturn's moon Enceladus.

Bullet and greenhead ants produce toxins they inject with every sting, which prolong nerve signals to the brain and lead to trembling, uncontrollable and long-lasting pain in mammals.

Use of sodium fluoroacetate poison baits – commonly known as 1080 – to kill unwanted animals is widespread in Australia. But it occurs largely out of sight and out of mind. We may see signs warning the baits have been laid, but we rarely see the consequences.

Sodium bicarbonate has long been used to help professional athletes eke out an extra percentage point in their performances, but bicarb spells trouble for most GI systems. Has Maurten cracked the code?