U.S. is developing lithium mines to reduce reliance on foreign supply chains. New study assessed whether U.S. subbasins can support water-intensive lithium mining. Team combined water, climate and socioeconomic models to project water supply and demand between 2040 and 2060. Under every scenario, most western subbasins struggled to meet existing water demands, let alone support additional lithium mining.

An artificial intelligence framework that suggests just one to three ingredient swaps can make meals meaningfully more nutritious and less expensive, according to a new study published in the open-access journal PLOS Digital Health by Trevor Chan and Ilias Tagkopoulos of the University of California, Davis, USA.

MIT researchers developed a low-temperature process for extracting battery-grade lithium from the common mineral spodumene. The closed-loop process could help the U.S. tap into its own abundant sources of lithium, a critical element that is currently refined primarily in China.

Using catheters coated with specialized carbon nanotubes, MIT researchers developed a new way to monitor bladder cancer patients for tumor recurrence.