A team of scientists have penned a new study that details an interesting way to collect valuable minerals from electronic waste, and the method includes creating a sponge from dairy waste. The sponge ...

Tackling the issues: Electronic waste is a growing problem. Each year, consumers produce millions of tons of used and broken electronics. Only a portion of the metals they contain are recycled because ...

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 ...

Inside the dense circuitry of an old computer motherboard, thin gold pathways once carried millions of electronic signals per ...

Researchers in Switzerland have developed an innovative method to extract pure gold from electronic waste using whey, a byproduct of cheese production. This eco-friendly process utilizes protein ...

Inside all TVs, computers, mobile phones, gaming consoles, and other electronic devices lies a circuit board of some sort, and inside that circuit board lies gold. Though it only exists in tiny ...

Forward-looking: A team of Australian researchers has unveiled a breakthrough method for extracting gold that could dramatically reduce the environmental and health hazards long associated with mining ...