Jackie Schiffner is helping 40 kids at an Orange County school learn a variety of dance styles.

More than 15,000 Twitter accounts identified as robots used the #ivoted hashtag on Election Day, according to a study from USC's Information Sciences Institute and a Swiss researcher. In virtually every state, more than a fifth of those posting about the elections were robots.

The USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative report finds a shortage of women in all levels, from performers to producers and songwriters.

The award-winning app, goodmoov, rewards drivers for avoiding bottlenecks by taking slightly longer routes. The result: Bottlenecks move more freely.

The “wellness-to-go” machine is stocked with everything from ibuprofen and thermometers to pregnancy tests and emergency contraception.

USC Rossier/PACE Poll finds strong support for expanding mental health and holding active shooter drills.

The work could help with earlier diagnosis and lead to non-invasive ways of tracking the progress of the disease in patients.

Researcher Wael Abd-Almageed and an international team are building enhanced biometric security technologies to thwart would-be bad guys.

About 40 Crescenta Valley players are part of the unique study that gives doctors a baseline to analyze players’ brains. “We don’t know if adolescent brains are more or less vulnerable to these repeated head impacts,” says USC’s Brad Peterson.