When an old laptop or printer finally gives out, the biggest question is often, "What do I do with it now?" Tossing electronics in the trash is bad for the environment and can even be illegal. It's no ...

If you have a growing graveyard of old printers and laptops in your closet, you're not alone. A recent CNET survey found that nearly a third of us are hoarding old electronics, probably because ...

Postdoctoral researcher Shichen Xu examines the carbon paper platform that holds powdered magnet material from which he and his colleagues will extract rare earth elements using a recycling technique ...

The move is Beijing’s latest attempt to tighten control over global production of the metals, which are essential to the manufacture of computer chips. By Keith Bradsher and Meaghan Tobin Keith ...