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Study reveals that lithium affects multiple cellular processes in Alzheimer's disease and opens up new avenues of research.

Startup Rock Zero is commercializing the research, which could cut costs and carbon emissions from lithium production.

Lithium sits at the center of the battery economy. Yet getting it out of rock still looks surprisingly crude. Spodumene, the ...

A new study offers a clearer view of how mechanical stress and electrochemical processes interact inside lithium-ion ...

While we make batteries based on many different chemistries, nothing has approached the massive scale at which we can produce ...

A couple of weeks ago, an outbreak of hantavirus erupted aboard a cruise ship. Three people died, but the outbreak was kept ...

Texas lawmakers proposed a bill to allow private-sector lithium mining companies to work on certain military bases.

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Lithium is extracted from brine at Silver Peak, Nevada, currently the only active lithium resource in the U.S. A UC Davis study shows that as demand for lithium grows in coming years, battery ...

Many climate experts see its deserts as a place to build the green-energy future. For two local activists, the price is too great. Patrick Donnelly and Naomi Fraga in a salt flat on the edge of Ash ...