The Dead Sea is a confluence of extraordinary conditions: the lowest point on Earth's land surface, with one of the world's ...

The Dead Sea is an extraordinary natural laboratory, providing rare insights into the formation of large-scale salt formations known as salt giants. A recent study led by UC Santa Barbara’s Eckart ...

Indonesian passenger ferry caught fire at sea, killing 3 on Sunday off Sulawesi island in Indonesia. Copyright 2025 The ...

Researchers claim to have a method of using AI to date the Dead Sea Scrolls — this could have implications for the way we ...

Today the Dead Sea still mystifies us. Because it is so low -- 1,300 feet below sea level -- it's closest to all the deep Earth's minerals and, most visibly, the Earth's salt, which cakes at its ...

The Dead Sea is in the heart of the Syrian-African rift valley, bordered by Jordan, Israel and the Palestinian territories, and its surface is 1,407 feet below sea level, making it the lowest ...

Dr. Marcus-Kalish invited me to the Dead Sea Research Institute at Masada to attend the second Global Scientific Summit: Life in Extreme Conditions – A Lesson from Nature.

The Dead Sea's water level is dropping nearly 4 feet a year. Less well known: Part of the lake is actually overflowing, threatening one of Israel's key tourism destinations.

DEAD SEA, Jordan-- Jordanian rescuers searching the Dead Sea area for survivors of flash floods found the body of a 12-year-old girl on Friday, raising the death toll in the tragedy to 19.

The Dead Sea Scrolls are usually thought to have been produced by a group known as the Essenes. And the Essenes are a group that literally abandoned Jerusalem, it seems, ...

The Dead Sea's buoyancy is not in jeopardy because as the sea shrinks, it becomes more concentrated, more salty. The saltier the water gets, the easier it is to float on it.