Five-year USC study finds significant differences between kids who learned to play instruments and those who didn’t.

Trojans volunteer and reach out worldwide.

USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics joins the Brookings Institution to launch the Schaeffer Initiative for Innovation in Health Policy.

Several sessions are planned throughout the summer, including some as far away as New York and Shanghai.

Research at the Keck School of Medicine of USC suggests there’s a physiological reason that seniors fall victim to financial scams: Complex financial decisions require connections between different parts of the brain, and those connections break down as we age.

Picture yourself in a computer game as a personalized 3-D avatar. The technology exists; USC’s Ari Shapiro and Evan Suma are bringing down the cost to make it more accessible. “If it’s fast and cheap, it’s going to be pervasive,” Shapiro says.

The new method generates hydrogen and stores it efficiently, and without further polluting the environment.

Voters in the U.K. will decide June 23 whether the country should remain part of the European Union.

Findings could impact development of clinical strategies to treat cancers of the lung, breast and prostate.