A Cornell University-led research team has created a new process to extract 99.9% of the gold from electronic waste to help turn carbon dioxide into useful organic materials. Discarded electronics are ...

From jewelry to advanced electronics, gold's value is undeniable. Its unique properties and widespread use make it an ...

It’s fair to say that interest in gold is longstanding. This includes recovering the gold used as a conductor in electronics — especially cell phones, which use more than laptops. Gold is considered a ...

In context: The Royal Mint, which has been producing British coins since the Middle Ages, is now adapting to a world where physical money is becoming less essential. In an effort to reinvent itself, ...

Freeport, New York — At eWorks in Freeport, New York, piles of dusty televisions, personal computers, printers and other old tech are the start of an electronic treasure hunt. "There is a value that ...

If all 62 million metric tons of electronic waste the world produces in a year were loaded into garbage trucks, they’d encircle the planet bumper to bumper, according to a recent United Nations report ...

For more than a thousand years, the primary purpose of Britain’s Royal Mint has been to make coins. It has forged into metal the likeness of England’s kings and queens from Alfred the Great, the ninth ...