green technology

Boston Metal, an MIT spinout, is ready to commercialize a new steelmaking method that can potentially clean up steel’s dirty processes. Typically, making steel involves mining iron ore, reducing it in a blast furnace with the addition of…

Sometimes making the parts necessary for green technologies can have dire effects on human wellbeing. The cobalt used in lithium-ion batteries in Africa's Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is a good example. Researchers led by…

Traditional air-cooling systems are noisy and need ongoing maintenance. Nokia announced the start of trials with Japanese mobile operator KDDI, using Nokia’s Liquid Cooling AirScale Baseband solution. The trial will show how KDDI can reduce…