The U.S. Navy has been testing 3D-printed parts on its fleet, and it likes the results. Here are the benefits of using ...

You may have gotten a 3D printer just to make a few cool gadgets for around the house, but these five prints can actually ...

Multi-material 3D printing lets users fabricate customized objects with multiple colors and varied textures. Yet the process can be time-consuming and wasteful because existing 3D printers must switch ...

A new 3D printing method, called Crystallinity Regulation in Additive Fabrication of Thermoplastics (CRAFT), ...

It’s been a while since 3D printers became available and started allowing people to create 3D objects in the real world right from their own home. If you’re interested in getting a rundown of what 3D ...

The CRAFT method uses widely available materials and inexpensive commercial 3D printers.

A research team has used advanced 3D printing techniques to develop low-temperature, "sinterless" silica glass. They ...

What happens to soft matter when gravity disappears? To answer this, UvA physicists launched a fluid dynamics experiment on a sounding rocket. The suborbital rocket reached an altitude of 267 km ...

Space Science: The recently launched Cygnus NG-20 robotic spacecraft is currently docked with the International Space Station (ISS). The resupply mission is packed with supplies for the ISS crew as ...

Perhaps one of the oldest dreams of a science-fiction future is the ability to create something where once there was nothing. If we could create solid, stable objects out of thin air, the idea of ...

BERKELEY, CA—A new 3D printer uses light to transform gooey liquids into complex solid objects in only a matter of minutes. Nicknamed the “replicator” by the inventors—after the Star Trek device that ...

Researchers have developed a new method for 3D printing objects with very different properties, including levels of hardness ...