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 ...

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 ...

BOSTON, April 19 (UPI) --Researchers at MIT have successfully created electronics components out of coal. Their findings are proof that the natural resource is more than just a fuel source. "When you ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...