A cellphone that vanishes in water is being created to help the environment with the large amount of discarded electronics that is piling up.Jeff Bennett is visiting Milwaukee's Historic Third Ward ...

Of all the stuff that people throw away, old electronics are some of the hardest trash to get rid of. They contain toxins and tons of tiny parts, making them expensive to recycle. But a group of ...

Five decades ago, physicist Richard Feynman thought of building tiny computers from atoms and molecules. In theory, the smaller we could make electronic components, the more memory the computer chip ...

Through the GRACE satellite program, researchers have shown that Greenland’s ice sheet has been losing about 280 billion tons of ice each year—the equivalent of close to 1.5 million Olympic swimming ...

A rapid prototyping platform called VIK (Voxel Invention Kit) enables makers without engineering expertise to create large-scale interactive devices using a series of reconfigurable electromechanical ...