New laboratory earthquake model links real contact area to earthquake dynamics, opening a new pathway for earthquake prediction and early warning systems.
The reversible method targets specific synapses without harming neurons, offering a powerful tool for studying — and potentially treating — conditions such as addiction, epilepsy and PTSD.
Research uncovers a mechanism that protects the genome by avoiding catastrophic errors when repairing breaks in tightly packed DNA, a finding with implications for cancer and aging.
USC Viterbi’s Information Sciences Institute is explopring how large language models like ChatGPT understand — and sometimes violate — legal frameworks.
The USC Dornsife Professor Emeritus discovered “weak localization,” a quantum effect that reveals how electrons move through thin, disordered materials.
USC Price’s Wändi Bruine de Bruin presents findings to the National Academy of Sciences and calls for research to better understand and address Americans’ concerns about new energy infrastructure.
A USC-led team led by USC Dornsife researchers has uncovered a hidden culprit behind the Amazon rainforests’ slow recovery: water loss caused by reshaped terrain.
The method will allow power companies and regulators to make more informed choices to prevent or lessen the fallout from major blackouts.
The institute, supported by funds from the Lord Foundation of California, is the next step in the university’s effort to enhance research and education under the Frontiers of Computing “moonshot.”
The Chung Lab at USC Viterbi has engineered a therapeutically enhanced, naturally derived particle for powerful gene therapies.
