Once a month in the summer, a small parking lot on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s campus in Cambridge transforms into a high-tech flea market known for its outlandish offerings. Tables ...

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Materials Systems Laboratory and the U.S. National Center for Electronics Recycling (NCER) have released Quantitative Characterization of Domestic and ...

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 ...

Modular electronics face a problem in getting new and old components to communicate with each other in a fast and simple way. The MIT chip, however, uses flashes of light to convey information between ...

MIT creates nanoscale transistors for efficient electronics Quantum tunneling delivers low-voltage, high-performance The technology has the potential to replace silicon MIT researchers have developed ...

Graphene may be the poster child of thin film electronics, and silicon the current king of materials for semiconductors, but if scientists from MIT get their way, graphene's humble cousin, coal, could ...

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 ...

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 ...

Micro batteries about half the size of a human cell and built with viruses, may one day become a reality according to MIT researchers who have developed a way to create and install such microbatteries ...

A Houston High senior took a relative's death and turned his grief into a project that will be presented during an undergraduate conference at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Saksham Saksena, ...

Researchers at MIT have made a fibre containing integrated circuits and a wired network that can be sewn into fabrics and survive at least 10 washing cycles. “When you put it into a shirt, you can’t ...

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts (AP) — Once a month in the summer, a small parking lot on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s campus transforms into a high-tech flea market known for its outlandish ...