Makerbot is in the gutter, 3D Systems and Stratasys stock is only a shadow of their 2014 glory, but this is the best year 3D printing has ever had. Machines are now good and cheap, there’s a variety ...

The age of 3D printing, when every object so created can be personalized, will increase the need for tags to keep track of everything. Happily, the same 3D printing process used to produce an object ...

As more and more products are manufactured via 3D printing, the potential for inferior-quality 3D-printed counterfeit versions of those products rises accordingly. With that in mind, scientists have ...

The age of 3-D printing, when every object so created can be personalized, will increase the need for tags to keep track of everything. Happily, the same 3-D printing process used to produce an object ...

[Joseph Malloch] sent in a really cool video of him modeling a piece of foam twisting and turning in 3D space. To translate the twists, bends, and turns of his piece of foam, [Joseph] used several ...

Researchers have developed a new kind of “x-ray vision”—a way to peer inside real-world devices such as batteries and catalysts to map the internal nanostructures and properties of the various ...

The interior of an art object often contains answers to questions about how and when the object was made, where the materials came from, and in some cases even who made it. This information can ...