Your old computer. There’s always been tiny traces of gold (some as thinner than human hair) on the circuit boards. Just rip ’em and melt ’em for a gold nugget.

Four demonstrators planned The EU project Hypelignum has ambitious goals: It aims not only to study printed circuit boards made from renewable and compostable raw materials, but also to develop ...

Damaged circuit boards, such those with cracks or warping, can in some cases be repaired. If they aren't repaired, they can be separated from their electronic components.

An artist has created a set of sculptures from computer circuit boards.

Millions of tons of hard-to-recycle electronic circuit boards are burned or end up in landfills—a replacement based on leaf skeletons could stem that waste.

A hefty tariff has been placed on Japanese-made printed circuit boards, a key part in personal computers. The move, made quietly last month by the U.S. Customs Service, has at least one high-tech t… ...

She uses everything, from pieces of scrap metal and electronic components, to computer circuit boards and chips. "In 1992, my husband had a company that made computers.

Most of us who have dabbled a little in electronics will have made our own printed circuit boards at some point. We’ll have rubbed on sticky transfers, laser-printed onto acetate, covered our ...

Today, 60 percent of the circuit boards made in the United States come from “merchant” shops that build boards under contract.