At a laboratory in Newark, New Jersey, a gray liquid swirls vigorously inside a reactor the size of a small watermelon. Here, scientists with the mining technology startup Still Bright are using a ...

Still Bright hopes its chemical process could help replace polluting copper smelters. Demand for copper is surging, as is pollution from its dirty production processes. The founders of one startup, ...

If you look at the copper market chart over the past 10 years, it might seem like a perfectly balanced system. Market “bears” ...

Chipmakers are relying on machine learning for electroplating and wafer cleaning at leading-edge process nodes, augmenting traditional fault detection/classification and statistical process control in ...

A startup called Red Metals is trying to make better use of the copper discarded in old products. The world faces a looming copper shortage: By 2040, demand could grow by 50%, driven by everything ...