A groundbreaking method of recycling electronic waste could revolutionize the extraction of precious metals for green technologies. Gisele Azimi, a professor at the University of Toronto and an expert ...

New research shows how fatty acids in cooking oil can safely dissolve and recover silver from circuit boards without harmful ...

E-waste is a rapidly growing problem, with discarded electronics containing valuable metals that are largely unrecovered. Scientists have discovered bacteria capable of extracting precious metals like ...

A consortium of United Kingdom firms that includes Tetronics International, Swindon, U.K., has announced a £1 million ($1.5 million) project that is targeting the recycling of obsolete electronics ...

An aerogel made from old milk can extract highly pure gold nuggets from discarded computer motherboards. Discarded electronics, known as e-waste, often contain large amounts of gold and other heavy ...

Government pushes for e-waste recycling as electronics consumption grows, focusing on extracting valuable metals and ...

A new study from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign shows how electrochemistry can be used to extract precious metals from discarded electronics in an efficient and environmentally friendly ...

Companies are getting in on the ground floor of mining asteroids in space for precious minerals and important terrestrial ...

A simple one-step process recovers more than 90% of rare earth elements (REEs) from magnets ( Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 2025, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2507819122).