Using this state-of-the-art technique will benefit the agency by saving millions in manufacturing costs. NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. is using a method called selective laser melting, or SLM, to create intricate [...]

A new manufacturing technique could help poor countries as well as rich ones EVERY summer, Seattle holds a raft race in Green Lake, a park that is the eponymous home of the water the rafts [...]

It’s time to say goodbye to manually creating bricks of unusual shapes for avant-garde structural designs. Amsterdam-based architect Brian Peters has adapted his knowledge of 3D printing onto the architectural landscape by successfully programming a [...]

Makerbot‘s fourth generation desktop 3D printer was launched yesterday, and it’s very impressive indeed. The Makerbot Replicator 2 continues to raise the bar for at-home 3D printing with increased build volume, new software and significantly finer layer [...]

Objects created using 3-D printing have a common flaw: They are fragile and often fall apart or lose their shape. “I have an entire zoo of broken 3-D printed objects in my office,” said Bedrich Benes, [...]

SOMETHING big is happening to the business of making things. Those who want to understand it are unlikely to find a better guide than Peter Marsh. A writer for the Financial Times (owned by Pearson, a part-proprietor [...]

It’s spawning a revolution The DIY movement has vaulted from the home to the research lab, and it’s driven by the same motives: saving tons of money and getting precisely what you want. It’s spawning [...]

The goal is to be able to print biological tissues for regenerative medicine. Nanoengineers at the University of California, San Diego have developed a novel technology that can fabricate, in mere seconds, microscale three dimensional [...]

Video: Professor Stephen Hoskins shares more about the latest 3D printing methods in ceramics in this insightful interview. A 7,000 year old technique, known as Egyptian Paste (also known as Faience), could offer a potential process [...]

We firmly believe that everything should be 3D printable. That is, if you’re in the market for some sort of new widget or piece of furniture or you just need to fix something, you should be [...]

The legendary VC’s investment means factory-assembled, cruelty-free, 100% natural-feeling leather may be coming as soon as next year. After that: Get ready for your first test-tube steak. A world of animal-free animal products would be [...]

3-D modelling is maturing fast. Increasingly affordable solutions are not only raising general awareness of 3D workflows but revolutionizing design, engineering and manufacturing processes. The case in point is German-based David-laserscanner – a system that [...]