Depressive disorders are among the most frequent illnesses worldwide. The causes are complex and to date only partially understood. The trace element lithium appears to play a role. The distribution ...

Depressive disorders are among the most frequent illnesses worldwide. The causes are complex and to date only partially understood. The trace element lithium appears to play a role. Using neutrons of ...

This news release is available in German. At present lithium is most popular for its use in rechargeable batteries. But for decades now, lithium has also been used to treat various psychological ...

OUT of chaos comes order. Or at least it did in the early universe. Moments after the Big Bang, space was a hot, dense, seething froth of elementary particles and light. As the universe expanded and ...

Cosmology is truly a remarkable science. Okay, all science is remarkable, but cosmology deals with something so neat and simple—the beginning of the Universe, where all of our reality was governed by ...

A new study has revealed promising results that could drastically boost the performance of solid-state electrolytes, and could potentially lead to a safer, even more efficient battery. Researchers ...

A new technique is allowing researchers to measure endogenous lithium concentrations in the human brain for the very first time. To test the technique researchers compared lithium levels in ...

An underground experiment has imitated conditions from just after the Big Bang to produce the universe’s most confounding element, lithium. The experiment’s result reinforces what scientists call the ...

Since they are acknowledged as critical energy storage devices, lithium batteries have become a necessary part of modern life. However, with the speed at which modern industry is developing, lithium ...

You may not have known it was missing, but half of the universe's lithium has just been accounted for, to the profound relief of researchers embroiled in what astrophysicists call the "cosmological ...