Huge lithium deposits are in Nevada. Here’s why.
In Clayton Valley, a broad basin in western Nevada's Esmeralda County, aquamarine pools lie between brown-toned mountains under a clear blue sky. Similar...
What really caused encephalitis lethargica, the mysterious disease described in the movie
"People have forgotten what life is all about," Robert De Niro's character says in the film Awakenings after being revived from the shut-down...
Watch sun erupt in 1st images from NOAA’s groundbreaking new satellite
The first images from a new space-based telescope launched into Earth's orbit to monitor the sun captured a striking solar storm outburst.The National...
The Salton Sea — an area rich with lithium — is a hot spot...
Windblown dust from the shrinking Salton Sea harms the respiratory health of children living nearby, triggering asthma, coughing, wheezing and disrupted sleep, USC...
Increased rates of severe human infections caused by Streptococcus subspecies
A concerning increase in global rates of severe invasive infections becoming resistant to key antibiotics has a team of infectious disease researchers at...
Exposure to particular sources of air pollution is harmful to children’s learning and memory
A new USC study involving 8,500 children from across the country reveals that a form of air pollution, largely the product of agricultural...
Chemists broke a 100-year-old rule to make extremely unstable molecules
Scientists have broken a 100-year-old chemistry rule to synthesize a class of molecules previously thought to be too unstable to form.The molecules in...
Bird flu was found in a US pig – does that raise the risk...
Every time H5N1...
We’ve seen particles that are massless only when moving one direction
Mass-shifting particles have...
Viruses may help store vast amounts of carbon in soil
A bacteriophage virus...