In the arid American West, expanded mining intensifies battles in vulnerable communities over one of the region’s scarcest resources.

Lithium is familiar as a psychiatric medication, but it also occurs naturally in groundwater. Now researchers at the University of California, San Francisco have found a possible connection between ...

Researchers at the University of Oklahoma combined density functional theory calculations with graph neural networks to ...

Lithium startup EnergyX said on Monday it has signed a $2 billion binding offtake to supply commodities trader Trafigura with ...

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Children living in areas with higher levels of lithium in drinking water were more likely to be diagnosed with ...

Researchers analyzed healthcare records from more than 2.3 million children in California and found that those living in ...

Machine-learning simulations validated by solid-state NMR spectroscopy reveal that lithium ions form anion-free multi-ion ...

A team of researchers at Rice University has developed a new membrane that selectively filters out lithium from brines, offering a faster, cleaner way to produce the element at the heart of nearly ...

The US is set to have access to about 110,000 US tons (100,000 metric ...

Marissa Russo is a former STAT intern supported by the AAAS Mass Media Science & Engineering Fellowship. A new study finds that the element lithium plays a crucial role in healthy brain function and ...