Ordinarily, if you want to change the shape in which an object is 3D-printed, you have to alter the computer model that tells the printer what to do. A new and simpler technique, however, allows the ...

Printability generally improved in 2025, with support for new squishier alternatives to TPU making 3D-printed bouncy balls a ...

Armed with a 3D printer filled with some sort of nondescript food paste, a team of MIT engineers is revealing how the shape and arrangement of foods can trick our brains into feeling more or less ...

Skovsporet, described as Europe’s largest 3D printed housing project, is now taking shape in Holstebro. When finished, the ...

A research project undertaken at MIT and Singapore University of Technology and Design succeeded in developing 3D-printed structures that can be physically manipulated in extreme ways and then spring ...

Chocolate lovers will surely appreciate this particular innovation: A Belgian company created a 3D printer that can use melted chocolate to make any object or shape out of chocolate. That's hardly ...

Drawing inspiration from how plants change shape in response to environmental stimuli, Harvard scientists from the Wyss Institute and John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences have ...

A pill is a pill. Or is it? You may think that taking prescribed medications is a no-brainer, but think again. Let's face it. Going to the pharmacy is a chore--something that we often dread when we ...