Have you ever wondered what happens to obsolete electronics once they are discarded? How far do they travel and what are the "second lives" of donated computers? MIT's backtalk project aims to answer ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON: A material called gallium nitride (GaN) is poised to become the next semiconductor for power electronics, enabling much higher efficiency than silicon. Massachusetts Institute of ...

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 ...

MIT's first MOOC, "6.002x Circuits and Electronics" According to Class Central, the course, which launched on March 5, 2012, drew 155,000 learners from around the world. Students were "blown away" by ...