All of the wondrous gadgets and gizmos that have built the modern technological world come with a major drawback—they eventually end up in the trash. E-waste has been a growing problem for years, and ...

Cambridge, MA – Transistors, the building blocks of modern electronics, are typically made of silicon. Because it’s a semiconductor, this material can control the flow of electricity in a circuit. But ...

Engineers at MIT have developed a modular computer chip with components that can communicate using flashes of light. This could allow for electronics that can easily be upgraded with new sensors or ...

The silicon that forms the foundation of most computer chips has fundamental limits to how much power it can manage, which ...

LAS VEGAS — MIT Media Lab has launched a new research initiative focused on consumer electronics. An announcement about the initiative and cooperation between the MIT Lab and the Consumer Electronics ...

LAS VEGAS ” MIT Media Lab has launched a new research initiative focused on consumer electronics. An announcement about the initiative and cooperation between the MIT Lab and the Consumer Electronics ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--MIT researchers have developed new metrics for assessing the performance of firms that recycle scrapped electronic equipment, a major source of toxic pollutants. The metrics focus ...

How can electronic “skin” help advance the electronics and computer industry? This is what a recent study published in Nature hopes to address as a team of researchers from the Massachusetts Institute ...

Researchers at MIT have unexpectedly stumbled upon a way to 3D print active electronics – meaning transistors and components for controlling electrical signals – without the use of semiconductors or ...