Bees adapt to rough surfaces with clever building rules—insights that could transform 3D printing and architecture.

In the 21st century, 3D printing has become commonplace. Nowadays, few people remember that the first object printed using this innovative technology was a toy toad. Almost 40 years have passed since ...

Tips, Tricks, and Satisfaction!" Dive into the world of 3D printing as we explore the creative potential and functionality of ...

Remember the scene in Ford v Ferrari where Matt Damon, playing Carroll Shelby, watches his team strip all the heavy computer ...

GRACE is a new 3D printing technique developed by a team of researchers at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. Learn more ...

Color gradient filament is fun stuff to play with. It lets you make 3D prints that slowly fade from one color to another along the Z-axis. [David Gozzard] wanted to do some printing with this effect, ...

The Estes line of flying model rockets have inspired an untold number of children and adults alike, thanks in part to their simplicity. From the design and construction of the rockets themselves ...

James has been writing about technology for years but has loved it since the early 90s. While his main areas of expertise are maker tools -- 3D printers, vinyl cutters, paper printers, and laser ...

Organ donors can save lives, for example, those of patients with kidney failure. Unfortunately, there are too few donors, and ...

University of Minnesota researchers developed a 3D-printed scaffold that directs stem cells to grow into functioning nerve cells, successfully restoring movement in rats with severed spinal cords.

More than that, Conflux uses the advantages of AM to produce sophisticated surface contours, or ‘geometries’, that take into account the changing thermal properties of the fluids as they pass through ...

An updated edition of the July 7, 2025 article. 3D Printing, or additive manufacturing, is a groundbreaking technology that converts digital designs into physical objects by building them layer by ...