Space/Science
The Great Salt Lake in Utah has an otherworldly quality to it. It is a pink-tinged hyper-saline lake trimmed with a halo of salt that encrusts everything it touches. With water levels at a 30-year low, the salt load has reached a saturation point of 30%, giving it 10 times the salinity of seawater. Life just should not be able to exist here, but scientists are finding that the lake is teeming with life. Here's the URL in case I've messed that upl http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3725973.stm
