"The fact I love the most is that we're using a food industry byproduct to obtain gold from electronic waste."

A "living" smartwatch powered by a slime mold needs food and care to function. Can it make us less fickle consumers of technology?

Adding more salt to a polymer-based electrolyte can keep batteries working without catching fire when heated to over 140 degrees F.

A new technique directly prints electronic circuits onto curved and corrugated surfaces, paving the way for soft electronics.

Greenhouse gas emissions from e-waste jumped 53% between 2014 and 2020. Researchers say keeping devices for longer could help.

Researchers have come up with a more environmentally friendly way to extract rare earth elements, critical for tech like smartphones and car batteries.

For "urban mining" of precious metals, researchers have adapted the flash Joule method to get gold, silver, rhodium, and other materials from e-waste.

A new luminescent sensor can detect terbium, a valuable rare earth element that produces the green color in our smart phone screens.

Researchers have shown that they can harvest enough energy from otherwise wasted WiFi signals to power small electronic devices.

A type of fabric typically used for hiking gear could potentially lead to wearable electronics that successfully cool both the device and the wearer's skin.